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Stephanopogon apogon

Naoji Yubuki and Brian S. Leander
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Containing group: Stephanopogon

Introduction

Stephanopogon apogon is one of two species in the genus that has been studied at both the ultrastructural and molecular phylogenetic levels. This was the first species to be described with the aid of transmission electron microscopy, and these studies demonstrated that Stephanopogon was not a member of the Ciliata (Lipscomb and Corliss 1982; Patterson and Brugerolle 1988). A culture of S. agpogon containing the euglenozoan Rhynchomonas nasuta as a food source is available at the American Type Culture Collection ATCC (50096).

The molecular phylogenetic position of this species was addressed using both actin and small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences; this study showed that S. apogon is closely related to the heterolobosean Percolomonas cosmopolitus (Yoon et al 2008).

Characteristics

Stephanopogon apogon has a slit-like apical cytostome, but lacks the prominent apical barbs present in other species in the genus.

References

Lipscomb, D. l. and Corliss, J. O. 1982. Stephanopogon, a phylogenetically important "ciliate," shown by ultrastructural studies to be a flagellate. Science 215:303-304.

Patterson, D. J. and Brugerolle, G. 1988. The ultrastructural identity of Stephanopogon apogon and the relatedness of the genus to other kinds of protists. Europ Europ. J. Protistol. 23:279-290.

Yoon, H. S., Grant, J., Tekle, Y. I., Wu, M., Chaon, B. C., Cole, J. C., Logsdon Jr. J. M., Patterson, D. J., Bhattacharya, D. and Katz, L. A. 2008. Broadly sampled multigene trees of eukaryotes. BMC Evol. Biol. 8:14.

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Scientific Name Stephanopogon apogon
Location Collected from a commercial saltwater aquarium in Boise, Idaho, USA
Specimen Condition micrograph
Source Stephanopogon apogon
Source Collection Micro*scope
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 2.5.
Copyright © 2004
Scientific Name Stephanopogon apogon
Acknowledgements Image used under license to MBL (micro*scope) -- David Patterson.
Specimen Condition micrograph
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 2001 D. J. Patterson, L. Amaral-Zettler and V. Edgcomb
Scientific Name Stephanopogon apogon
Location Collected from a commercial saltwater aquarium in Boise, Idaho, USA
Comments Portrait of the colorless benthic marine protist, Stephanopogon apogon (Borror, 1965)attempting (ambitiously) to ingest a large diatom.
Specimen Condition micrograph
Source Stephanopogon apogon
Source Collection Micro*scope
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 2.5.
Copyright © 2004
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This page is being developed as part of the Tree of Life Web Project Protist Diversity Workshop, co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity and the Tula Foundation.


The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Brian S. Leander
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Yubuki, Naoji and Brian S. Leander. 2008. Stephanopogon apogon. Version 23 September 2008 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Stephanopogon_apogon/129958/2008.09.23 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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