Ultrastructure of Selenidium pendula, the Type Species of Archigregarines, and Phylogenetic Relations to Other Marine Apicomplexa

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• 作者：Joseph Schré ; vel^a ; ¹ ; ^{schrevel@mnhn.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Andrea Valigurová ; ^b ; Gé ; rard Prensier^c ; ² ; Auré ; lie Chambouvet^d ; Isabelle Florent^a ; Laure Guillou^e
• 关键词：Archigregarines ; Apicomplexa ; Selenidium pendula ; ultrastructure ; phylogeny ; sporozoite.
• 刊名：Protist
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：167
• 期：4
• 页码：339-368
• 全文大小：46017 K

文摘

Archigregarines, an early branching lineage within Apicomplexa, are a poorly-known group of invertebrate parasites. By their phylogenetic position, archigregarines are an important lineage to understand the functional transition that occurred between free-living flagellated predators to obligatory parasites in Apicomplexa. In this study, we provide new ultrastructural data and phylogenies based on SSU rDNA sequences using the type species of archigregarines, the Selenidiidae Selenidium pendula Giard, 1884. We describe for the first time the syzygy and early gamogony at the ultrastructural level, revealing a characteristic nuclear multiplication with centrocones, cryptomitosis, filamentous network of chromatin, a cyst wall secretion and a 9+0 flagellar axoneme of the male gamete. S. pendula belongs to a monophyletic lineage that includes several other related species, all infecting Sedentaria Polychaeta (Spionidae, Sabellaridae, Sabellidae and Cirratulidae). All of these Selenidium species exhibit similar biological characters: a cell cortex with the plasma membrane - inner membrane complex - subpellicular microtubule sets, an apical complex with the conoid, numerous rhoptries and micronemes, a myzocytosis with large food vacuoles, a nuclear multiplication during syzygy and young gamonts. Two other distantly related Selenidium-like lineages infect Terebellidae and Sipunculida, underlying the ability of archigregarines to parasite a wide range of marine hosts.