TY - JOUR
TI - Life Cycle, Morphology, Ontogenesis, and Phylogeny of Bromeliothrix metopoides nov. gen., nov. spec., a Peculiar Ciliate (Protista, Colpodea) from Tank Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae)
AU - Foissner, Wilhelm
TI - Life Cycle, Morphology, Ontogenesis, and Phylogeny of Bromeliothrix metopoides nov. gen., nov. spec., a Peculiar Ciliate (Protista, Colpodea) from Tank Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae)
AB - Bromeliothrix metopoides was discovered in tank bromeliads from Central and South America. Pure cultures could be established in various media stimulating growth of its food, i.e. bacteria and heterotrophic flagellates of the genus Polytomella. The new ciliate was investigated in the light- and scanning electron microscope, with various silver impregnation techniques, and with molecular methods, using the small-subunit rDNA. The morphology and its changes during the life cycle are documented by 167 figures and a detailed morphometry. Bromeliothrix metopoides is about 27–55 × 22–36 μm in size and has a complex life cycle with Metopus-shaped, bacteriophagous theronts and trophonts (microstomes) and obovate, flagellate-feeding macrostomes having a large, triangular oral apparatus. The thin-walled
VL - 2010
IS - Volume 49, Issue 3
PY - 2010
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 159
EP - 193
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/life-cycle-morphology-ontogenesis-and-phylogeny-of-bromeliothrix-metopoides-nov-gen-nov-spec-a-peculiar-ciliate-protista-colpodea-from-tank-bromeliads-bromeliaceae
KW - Central America
KW - division chain
KW - life cycle
KW - macrostome formation
KW - merotelokinetal stomatogenesis
KW - polytomic division
KW - protist endemism
KW - South America