Gordon Lax, Eunji Park, Ina Na, Victoria Jacko-Reynolds, Waldan K Kwong, Chloe S E House, Morelia Trznadel, Kevin Wakeman, Brian S Leander, Patrick Keeling
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Abstract
Gregarines are a large and diverse subgroup of Apicomplexa, a lineage of obligate animal symbionts including pathogens such as Plasmodium, the malaria parasite. Unlike Plasmodium, however, gregarines are poorly studied, despite the fact that as early-branching apicomplexans they are crucial to our understanding of the origin and evolution of all apicomplexans and their parasitic lifestyle. Exemplifying this, the earliest branch of gregarines, the archigregarines, are particularly poorly studied: around 80 species have been described from marine invertebrates, but almost all of them were assigned to a single genus, Selenidium. Most are known only from light micrographs and largely unresolved rDNA phylogenies, where they exhibit a great deal of sequence variation, and fall into four subclades. To resolve the relationships within archigregarines, we sequenced 12 single-cell transcriptomes from species representing all four known subclades, as well as one blastogregarine (which frequently branch with Selenidium). A 190-gene phylogenomic tree confirmed four maximally supported individual clades of archigregarines and blastogregarines. These clades are discrete and distantly related, and also correlate with host identity. We propose the establishment of three novel genera of archigregarines to reflect their phylogenetic diversity and host range, and nine novel species isolated from a range of marine invertebrates.
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Open Biology is an online journal that welcomes original, high impact research in cell and developmental biology, molecular and structural biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics.