Complex array of endobionts in Petalomonas sphagnophila, a large heterotrophic euglenid protist from Sphagnum-dominated peatlands

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 4; no. 9; pp. 1108 - 1120
• Main Authors: Kim, Eunsoo, Park, Jong Soo, Simpson, Alastair GB, Matsunaga, Shigeru, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Murakami, Akio, Sommerfeld, Katrin, Onodera, Naoko T, Archibald, John M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.09.2010; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/855; 631/181/757; Bacteria; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - growth & development; Bacteria - isolation & purification; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cluster Analysis; Cyanobacteria; Cytoplasm - microbiology; Cytoplasm - ultrastructure; Daphnia; DNA, Bacterial - chemistry; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; DNA, Protozoan - chemistry; DNA, Protozoan - genetics; DNA, Ribosomal - chemistry; DNA, Ribosomal - genetics; Ecology; Euglenida - cytology; Euglenida - genetics; Euglenida - microbiology; Euglenida - physiology; Evolutionary Biology; Firmicutes; Fluorescence; Freshwater; Life Sciences; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Microscopy; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; Microscopy, Fluorescence; Molecular Sequence Data; Nova Scotia; original-article; Pathogens; Peatlands; Petalomonas; Petalomonas cantuscygni; Phylogeny; Proteobacteria; Rickettsiales; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 18S - genetics; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Soil; Soil Microbiology; Symbiosis; Canada, Nova Scotia; endobionts; euglenids; peatlands; endosymbiosis; symbiosis

Petalomonas sphagnophila is a poorly studied plastid-lacking euglenid flagellate living in Sphagnum -dominated peatlands. Here we present a broad-ranging microscopic, molecular and microspectrophotometric analysis of uncultured P. sphagnophila collected from four field locations in Nova Scotia, Cana...