Jakoba

Jakoba
Four jakobid species, showing groove and flagella: Jakoba libera (ventral view), Stygiella incarcerata (ventral view), Reclinomonas americana (dorsal view), and Histiona aroides (ventral view)
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Jakoba

Patterson 1990
Type species
Jakoba libera
(Ruinen 1938) Patterson 1990
Species
  • J. bahamiensis
  • J. libera

Jakoba is a genus in the taxon Excavata,[1][2] and currently has a single described species, Jakoba libera described by Patterson in 1990,[3] and named in honour of Dutch botanist (Algology, Myology and Lichenology) Jakoba Ruinen.[4] (Previously described Jakoba incarcerata has been renamed Andalucia incarcerata, and Jakoba bahamensis /Jakoba bahamiensis is not formally described.)[5]

Jakoba libera, phase contrast light micrograph living cell from type culture
  1. ^ Rodriquez-Ezpeleta, Naiara; Henner Brinkmann; Gertraud Burger; Andrew J. Roger; Michael W. Gray; Herve Philippe; B. Franz Lang (August 2007). "Toward Resolving the Eukaryotic Tree: The Phylogenetic Positions of Jakobids and Cercozoans". Current Biology. 17 (16): 1420–1425. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.07.036. PMID 17689961.
  2. ^ Simpson, A. G. B. & Patterson, D.J. 2001. On core jakobids and excavate taxa: the ultrastructure of Jakoba incarcerata. J. Euk. Microbial., 48: 480-492. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00183.x
  3. ^ Patterson, D. J. 1990. Jakoba libera (Ruinen, 1938) a heterotrophic flagellate from deep oceanic sediments. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, U.K. 70: 381-393
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ "Jakoba libera". The Tree of Life Web Project. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2012.