Biology:Leptomonas

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Short description: Genus of parasitic flagellate protist in the Kinetoplastea class

Leptomonas
Logitudinal section of dog flea intestine. Wellcome M0013240.jpg
Leptomonas etenocephali lining the lumen of intestine (longitudinal section) and Malpighan tube (transverse section) of the dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis).
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Class: Kinetoplastea
Order: Trypanosomatida
Family: Trypanosomatidae
Genus: Leptomonas
W.S.Kent, 1880
Species

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Leptomonas is a genus of parasitic flagellate protist belonging to family Trypanosomatidae and subfamily Leishmaniinae sensu Maslov & Lukeš 2012.[1] It is a monoxenous parasite of mainly Hemiptera, Diptera, and Siphonaptera insects.[2]

In addition to Leptomonas, one-host trypanosomatids from insects have been traditionally placed in genera Crithidia, Blastocrithidia, Herpetomonas, Rhynchoidomonas, and Wallaceina.[3][4]

Systematics

The etymology of the genus name Leptomonas derives from the two Ancient Greek words λεπτός (leptós), meaning "fine-grained, tiny", and μονάς (monás), meaning "alone, isolated" (as an adjective), or "a unit" (as a name).[5][6]

There are 18 species of Leptomonas.[7][8]

  • Leptomonas agilis Chatton
  • Leptomonas brasiliense (Franchini) França
  • Leptomonas buetschlii W.S. Kent
  • Leptomonas ciliatorum H.-D. Görtz & J. Dieckmann, 1987
  • Leptomonas costoris Wallace, Todd & Rogers
  • Leptomonas davidi Lafont
  • Leptomonas gerridis (Patton) Berliner
  • Leptomonas karyophilus Gillies & Hanson
  • Leptomonas lata Skvortzov
  • Leptomonas leptoglossi Hanson & McGhee
  • Leptomonas lunulata Massart
  • Leptomonas lygaei (Patton) Berliner
  • Leptomonas melophagia (Flu) Berliner
  • Leptomonas moramango
  • Leptomonas mesnili Roubaud
  • Leptomonas muscae-domesticae (Diesing) Senn
  • Leptomonas pangoniae Rodhain, Pons, Vandenbranden & Bequaert
  • Leptomonas pisciformis Skvortzov
  • Leptomonas soudanensis Roubaud

References

  1. Týč, Jiří; Votýpka, Jan; Klepetková, Helena; Šuláková, Hana; Jirků, Milan; Lukeš, Julius (2013-10-01). "Growing diversity of trypanosomatid parasites of flies (Diptera: Brachycera): Frequent cosmopolitism and moderate host specificity" (in en). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (1): 255–264. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.024. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 23747522. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790313002327. 
  2. Tanada, Yoshinori; Kaya, Harry K. (2012-12-02) (in en). Insect Pathology. Academic Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-08-092625-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=0QAl21IeeGgC&pg=PA397. 
  3. Merzlyak, Ekaterina; Yurchenko, Vyacheslav; Kolesnikov, Alexander A.; Alexandrov, Kirill; Podlipaev, Sergei A.; Maslov, Dmitri A. (2001-03-01). "Diversity and Phylogeny of Insect Trypanosomatids Based on Small Subunit rRNA Genes: Polyphyly of Leptomonas and Blastocrithidia" (in en). The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 48 (2): 161–169. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00298.x. ISSN 1066-5234. PMID 12095103. 
  4. Yurchenko, Vyacheslav Y.; Lukeš, Julius; Tesařová, Martina; Jirků, Milan; Maslov, Dmitri A. (2008-01-01). "Morphological Discordance of the New Trypanosomatid Species Phylogenetically Associated with the Genus Crithidia" (in en). Protist 159 (1): 99–114. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2007.07.003. PMID 17931968. 
  5. Bailly, Anatole (1981-01-01). Abrégé du dictionnaire grec français. Paris: Hachette. ISBN 978-2010035289. OCLC 461974285. 
  6. Bailly, Anatole. "Greek-french dictionary online". http://www.tabularium.be/bailly/. 
  7. "IRMNG - Leptomonas W.S. Kent, 1880". https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1374176. 
  8. "Leptomonas W.S.Kent, 1880 :: Algaebase". https://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=45750. 

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