ATCC? Number:50394?
Organism: Reclinomonas americana Flavin and Nerad
Designations: NZ
Isolation: water sample from Lake Namunamu (39 degrees 53'S, 175 degrees 28'E), 1988
Depositors: CJ O'Kelly
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 802: Sonneborn's Paramecium mediumTemperature: 25.0℃ Protocol: ATCCNO: 50394 SPEC: Place the entire contents of the test tube in a T-25 tissue culture flask containing 5 ml of ATCCmedium 802 bacterized with Enterobacter aerogenes ATCC13048. (Bacterize by inoculating it with a loopful of bacteria from an agar slant at least 24 hours prior to inoculation with the flagellate).
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Comments: Description of the species, not this strain [4991] Conserved sequence motifs in nad8 gene in mtDNA [38273] 5S rRNA gene in mitochondrion [21712]
Cross References: Nucleotide (GenBank) : AF007261 Reclinomonas americana mitochondrial DNA, complete genome.
Classification: KINGDOM: Protozoa
References: 4991: O'Kelly CJ. The jakobid flagellates: Structural features of Jakoba, Reclinomonas and Histiona and implications for the early diversification of eukaryotes. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 40: 627-636, 1993. 21712: Lang BF, et al. A 5 S rRNA gene is present in the mitochondrial genome of the protist Reclinomonas americana but is absent from red algal mitochondrial DNA. J. Mol. Biol. 261: 407-413, 1996. PubMed: 8800209 21777: Lang BF, et al. An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature. Nature 387: 493-497, 1997. PubMed: 9168110 33563: Burger G, et al. Genes encoding the same three subunits of respiratory complex II are present in the mitochondrial DNA of two phylogenetically distant eukaryotes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 2328-2332, 1996. PubMed: 8637872 38273: Lang BF, et al. Mitochondrial genomics in protists, an approach to probing eukaryotic evolution. Protist 149: 313-322, 1998.