Genus of Eukaryotic Organisms
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
^ 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 .
^ 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
^ 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
^ 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 .
^ "Jakoba libera" . The Tree of Life Web Project. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2012 .