Ministeria vibrans

Ministeria vibrans
Ministeria vibrans
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
(unranked):
(unranked):
Filozoa
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993[1]
Species:
M. vibrans
Binomial name
Ministeria vibrans
Tong, 1997

Ministeria vibrans is a bacterivorous amoeba with filopodia that lives suspended by a flagellum-derived stalk attached to the substrate.[2] The life cycle of Ministeria remains unknown.

  1. ^ Patterson, David J.; Nygaard, Kari; Steinberg, Gero; Turley, Carol M. (11 May 2009). "Heterotrophic flagellates and other protists associated with oceanic detritus throughout the water column in the mid North Atlantic". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 73 (1): 67–95. doi:10.1017/S0025315400032653.
  2. ^ Torruella, Guifré; Derelle, Romain; Paps, Jordi; Lang, B. Franz; Roger, Andrew J.; Shalchian-Tabrizi, Kamran; Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki (2012). "Phylogenetic Relationships within the Opisthokonta Based on Phylogenomic Analyses of Conserved Single-Copy Protein Domains". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29 (2): 531–544. doi:10.1093/molbev/msr185. PMC 3350318. PMID 21771718.