Cafileria
genus of marine microscopic protists
Cafileria is a genus of marine microscopic protists. It is monotypic, comprising the single species Cafileria marina, described in 2019 from Norway. It is part of a clade of heterotrophic flagellates that consume bacteria, known as Bicosoecida. Due to its small size it is described as a nanoflagellate. It is the only organism where direct connections between mitochondria and the cell nucleus have been observed. Another peculiarity of C. marina is the change in shape of the Golgi apparatus during the cell cycle.
Discovery
Cells of Cafileria marina were sampled from part of an algal mat community in a rock surface from Kvernesfjord, Norway. Their morphology, ultrastructure, flagellar apparatus and mitochondrial genome were investigated. The results, along with the formal taxonomic description of Cafileria marina, were published in 2019 by Czech researchers Dagmar Jirsová, Zoltán Füssy, Jitka Richtová, Ansgar Gruber and Miroslav Oborník.
The hapantotype of C. marina was deposited under the name IP CAS Pro 59 in the slide collection at the Biological Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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