Bodo (excavate)

Bodo
Bodo saltans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Class: Kinetoplastea
Order: Eubodonida
Vickerman in Moreira et al., 2004
Family: Bodonidae
Bütschli, 1883
Genus: Bodo
Ehrenberg, 1830
Type species
Bodo saltans
Ehrenberg, 1830

Bodo (/ˈboʊdoʊ/) is a genus of microscopic kinetoplastids, flagellate excavates first described in 1831 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.[1] The genus is small, as it has recently been redefined to include only four species.[2] Bodo includes free-living, phagotrophic organisms that can be found in many marine and freshwater environments as well as some terrestrial environments. Being phagotrophic, Bodo feeds on bacteria and other microorganisms that it finds while swimming through its water-based habitats.[3] The swimming-like movement is facilitated by the two unequal flagella that Bodo possesses which arise from an anteriorly located flagellar pocket.[4] Bodo is roughly bean-shaped and is often missed in samples from water or terrestrial environments due to its small size.

  1. ^ Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1832). "Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme". Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (in German). 1831: 1–154. ISSN 2944-4411. Wikidata Q124499817.
  2. ^ Thomas Cavalier-Smith (15 September 2016). "Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa". European Journal of Protistology. 56: 250–276. doi:10.1016/J.EJOP.2016.09.003. ISSN 0932-4739. PMID 27889663. Wikidata Q39151632.
  3. ^ N. A. Davidovich; O. I. Davidovich; Yu. A. Podunay; S. L. Polyakova; R. Gastineau (April 2019). "Decontamination of Diatom Algae Cultures Contaminated with the Kinetoplastid Bodo saltans Ehrenberg, 1832". Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin. 74 (2): 63–68. doi:10.3103/S0096392519020032. ISSN 0096-3925. Wikidata Q124499825.
  4. ^ Gary C. Mitchell; J. H. Baker; M. A. Sleigh (May 1988). "Feeding of a Freshwater Flagellate,Bodo saltans, on Diverse Bacteria1". Journal of Protozoology. 35 (2): 219–222. doi:10.1111/J.1550-7408.1988.TB04327.X. ISSN 0022-3921. Wikidata Q56003721.