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7 - Arcellinida testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): model of organisms for assessing microbial biogeography

from Part III - Unicellular eukaryotes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

By
Thierry J. Heger ,
Enrique Lara  and
Edward A.D. Mitchell
Edited by
Diego Fontaneto
Thierry J. Heger
Affiliation:
University of Geneva
Enrique Lara
Affiliation:
University of Neuchâtel
Edward A.D. Mitchell
Affiliation:
University of Neuchâtel
Diego Fontaneto
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
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Introduction

Although widely recognised as essential participants in ecosystem processes and representing a significant part of the Earth's biodiversity (Clarholm, 1985; Corliss, 2002; Schröter et al., 2003; Falkowski et al., 2004), eukaryotic microorganisms are very poorly understood from evolutionary and biogeographic points of view. Major questions concerning the diversity and the distribution of protists remain completely unresolved. Arcellinida testate amoebae are an excellent group from which to get insights into these questions because they are easy to collect, present in different habitats and they build a shell of characteristic morphology that remains even after the organism's death. In this group, both cosmopolitan and restricted distribution patterns have been documented. Some morphospecies such as Apodera vas(=Nebela vas), Alocodera cockayni or the whole genus Certesella have been reported as one of the most convincing examples of heterotrophic protists with restricted distributions (Foissner, 2006; Smith and Wilkinson, 2007; Smith et al., 2008). Arcellinida testate amoebae belong to the eukaryotic supergroup Amoebozoa (Nikolaev et al., 2005) and are morphologically characterised by the presence of lobose pseudopodia and a shell (test) composed from proteinaceous, calcareous or siliceous material. It can be either self-secreted or composed of recovered and agglutinated material. The Arcellinida covers a relatively broad range of sizes (mostly between 20 and 250 μm).

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Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms
Is Everything Small Everywhere?
 , pp. 111 - 129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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