ATCC? Number:50073?
Organism: Helgoeca nana Leadbeater
Designations: 3/25/81 NB(2)
Isolation: Lower Narragansett Bay, RI, 1981
Depositors: PG Davis
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 1361: Marine flagellate mediumMax Temperature: 10.0°C Min Temperature: 4.0°C Grown with mixed bacteria
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Comments: phylogeny [4912] Originally deposited as Acanthoecopsis unguiculata. Classified as Helgoeca nana based on ultrastructural and phylogentic analyses [16172869]
References: 4912: Wainright PO, et al. Monophyletic origins of the metazoa: an evolutionary link with fungi. Science 260: 340-342, 1993. PubMed: 8469985 16172869: Leadbeater BSC, et al. A new genus, Helgoeca gen. nov., for a nudiform choanoflagellate. Eur. J. Protistol. 44:227-237, 2008. PubMed: 18403187 16172870: Carr M, et al. Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105: 16641-16646, 2008. PubMed: 18922774