Telonemia

Telonemia are a phylum of microscopic eukaryote, single-celled organisms. [http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/telonemia_english] They are protists and are suggested to have evolutionary significance in being a possible missing link between ecologically important heterotrophic and photosynthetic species. [cite journal | author = Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Eikrem W, Klaveness D, Vaulot D, Minge M, Le Gall F, Romari K, Throndsen J, Botnen A, Massana R, Thomsen H, Jakobsen K | title = Telonemia, a new protist phylum with affinity to chromist lineages | journal = Proc Biol Sci | volume = 273 | issue = 1595 | pages = 1833–42 | year = 2006 | pmid = 16790418 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2006.3515] [http://www.cees.no/component/option,com_seminar/id,98]

According to Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi from the University of Oslo’s [http://www.cees.no/ Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis] , "this new group of organisms may have a greater genetic diversity than all known genomes of mammals, fish, birds, and reptiles". [cite journal | author = | title = Analysis of Environmental 18S Ribosomal RNA Sequences reveals Unknown Diversity of the Cosmopolitan Phylum Telonemia | journal = Protist | volume = | issue = | pages = | year = | pmid = 17196879] [http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/telonemia_english] Telonemia eat other single-cell organisms and planktonic algae, and in turn is eaten by animal plankton. "We are convinced that this group plays a central role in the ocean’s food chain and is a fragile piece of the greater ecological interplay,” says professor Kjetill S. Jakobsen. [http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=517358&ez_search=1]

Telonemia species eat other living cells, and thus might be useful in understanding basic cell biology. [http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/telonemia_english]

pecies

"Telonema antarctica" Thomsen 1992
"Telonema subtile" Griessmann 1913 (synonym "Telonema subtilis" Griessmann, 1913) [cite web|title = European Marine Biodiversity Research Sites|work = MarBEF|publisher = Flanders Marine Institute|date = 2004|url = http://www.marbef.org/data/sites.php]

References

External links

* Organism Details - Telonema [http://www.zoobank.org/namedetails.htm?nameid=844145]
* Taxonomy [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=232264&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock]
* Images etc [http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Telonema&submit=Go]