ATCC? Number:50344?
Organism: Paracercomonas marina Cavalier-Smith and Bass
Designations: BER 3-1
Isolation: sediment from 10-15 meters deep, Castle Harbour, Bermuda, 1990
Depositors: DA Munson
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 802: Sonneborn's Paramecium mediumTemperature: 25.0°C Grown with Enterobacter aerogenes ATCC13048 and mixed bacteria
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Type Strain: yes
Comments: Originally deposited as Cercomonas longicauda. Name changed to Paracercomonas marina as described in Karpov, SA, et al. (Protist 2006 157:125-158).
References: 70763: Zaman V, et al. Hyperamoeba isolated from human feces: Description and phylogenetic affinity. Eur. J. Protistol. 35: 197-207, 1999. 16172751: Karpov, SA, et al. Molecular phylogeny of Cercomonadidae and kinetid patterns of Cercomonas and Eocercomonas gen. nov. (Cercomonadida, Cercozoa). Protist 157:125-158, 2006. PubMed: 16647880