Ministeria vibrans

Ministeria vibrans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Opisthokonta
Phylum:	Choanozoa
Class:	Filasterea
Order:	Ministeriida
Family:	Ministeriidae
Genus:	Ministeria Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993[1]
Species:	Ministeria vibrans
Binomial name
Ministeria vibrans Tong, 1997

Ministeria vibrans is a small single-celled eukaryote which feeds on bacteria. Although it is an opisthokont, it seems not to fit in any of the established opisthokont lineages such as choanoflagellates or animals.^[2] It might form a group with Capsaspora, another opisthokont of uncertain placement.^[3] It is the only known opisthokont lineage which does not exhibit amoeboid cells or flagellated cells,^[4] having a spherical body.

References

1. Patterson, D. J. Nygaard, K. Steinberg, G. and Turley, C. M. 1992. Heterotrophic flagellates and other protists associated with detritus in the mid North Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK 73: 67-95, .
2. Cavalier-Smith, T; Chao, Ee (May 2003), "Phylogeny of choanozoa, apusozoa, and other protozoa and early eukaryote megaevolution", Journal of Molecular Evolution 56 (5): 540–63, doi:10.1007/s00239-002-2424-z, PMID 12698292
3. Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Minge MA, Espelund M; et al. (2008), Aramayo, Rodolfo, ed., "Multigene phylogeny of choanozoa and the origin of animals", PLoS ONE 3 (5): e2098, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002098, PMC: 2346548, PMID 18461162
4. Esser, Karl (ed.). The Mycota: A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied System. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-642-19974-5.