Mantamonas sphyraenae

Like other Mantamonas species, M. sphyraenae are heterotrophic unicellular protists with one anterior and one posterior flagellum in each cell.

The genome of Mantamonas sphyraenae is estimated to be 25 megabases long, with 9,416 predicted protein-coding genes. Analyses estimate a diploid genome of 66 pairs of chromosomes in the nucleus of M. sphyraenae cells. It is the first genome assembled within the CRuMs clade.

Mantamonas sphyraenae is notable for having the most gene-rich mitochondria genome outside of the jakobids, having a total of 91 genes, 62 of which are protein-coding.{{Cite journal |last=Moreira |first=David |last2=Blaz |first2=Jazmin |last3=Kim |first3=Eunsoo |last4=Eme |first4=Laura |date=2024-08-19 |title=A gene-rich mitochondrion with a unique ancestral protein transport system |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982224009205 |journal=Current Biology |language=English |volume=34 |issue=16 |pages=3812–3819.e3 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.017 |issn=0960-9822 |pmid=39084221}}

Mantamonas sphyraenae was collected in 2013 from the surface of a barracuda in a lagoon on Iriomote Island, in Taketomi, Japan. It has been suggested that either the species is epizootic, or it adhered to the fish skin by chance.

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{{cite journal|title=High quality genome and transcriptome data for two new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade

|first1=Jazmin|last1=Blaz|first2=Luis Javier|last2=Galindo|first3=Aaron A.|last3=Heiss|first4=Harpreet|last4=Kaur|first5=Guifré|last5=Torruella|first6=Ashley|last6=Yang|first7=L. Alexa|last7=Thompson|first8=Alexander|last8=Filbert|first9=Sally|last9=Warring|first10=Apurva|last10=Narechania|first11=Takashi|last11=Shiratori|first12=Ken-ichiro|last12=Ishida|first13=Joel B.|last13=Dacks|first14=Purificación|last14=López-García|first15=David|last15=Moreira|first16=Eunsoo|last16=Kim|first17=Laura|last17=Eme|journal=bioRxiv|doi=10.1101/2023.01.20.524885|date=January 2021|doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal|date=September 2010|title=The Novel Marine Gliding Zooflagellate Genus Mantamonas (Mantamonadida ord. n.: Apusozoa)|journal=Protist|volume=162|issue=2|pages=207–221|doi=10.1016/j.protis.2010.06.004|pmid=20884290|last1=Glücksman|first1=Edvard|last2=Snell|first2=Elizabeth A.|last3=Berney|first3=Cédric|last4=Chao|first4=Ema E.|last5=Bass|first5=David|last6=Cavalier-Smith|first6=Thomas}}

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Category:Protists described in 2021

Category:Podiata