• Re: A large colonial choanoflagellate from Mono Lake harbors live bacte

    From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Sat Aug 24 11:54:59 2024
    On 2024-08-23 19:59:29 +0000, erik simpson said:

    https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01623-24

    ABSTRACT
    As the closest living relatives of animals, choanoflagellates offer
    insights into the ancestry of animal cell physiology. Here, we report
    the isolation and characterization of a colonial choanoflagellate from
    Mono Lake, California. The choanoflagellate forms large spherical
    colonies that are an order of magnitude larger

    by volume, by surface area, by diameter? It makes a huge difference.

    than those formed by the closely related choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. In cultures maintained in the laboratory, the lumen of the
    spherical colony is filled with a branched network of extracellular
    matrix and colonized by bacteria, including diverse Gammaproteobacteria
    and Alphaproteobacteria. We propose to erect Barroeca monosierra gen.
    nov., sp. nov. Hake, Burkhardt, Richter, and King to accommodate this extremophile choanoflagellate. The physical association between
    bacteria and B. monosierra in culture presents a new experimental model
    for investigating interactions among bacteria and eukaryotes. Future
    work will investigate the nature of these interactions in wild
    populations and the mechanisms underpinning the colonization of B.
    monosierra spheres by bacteria.


    --
    Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
    in England until 1987.

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  • From Ernest Major@21:1/5 to Athel Cornish-Bowden on Sat Aug 24 12:02:10 2024
    On 24/08/2024 10:54, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-08-23 19:59:29 +0000, erik simpson said:

    https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01623-24

    ABSTRACT
    As the closest living relatives of animals, choanoflagellates offer
    insights into the ancestry of animal cell physiology. Here, we report
    the isolation and characterization of a colonial choanoflagellate from
    Mono Lake, California. The choanoflagellate forms large spherical
    colonies that are an order of magnitude larger

    by volume, by surface area, by diameter? It makes a huge difference.

    It's open access. S. rosetta colonies are 10-15 micrometers in diameter.
    B. monosierra colonies are 10-120 micrometers in diameter. The
    respective modes are 12 and 26 micrometers in diameter. So the maximum
    is an order of magnitude larger in diameter, and the mode an order of
    magnitude larger in volume. The caption to figure 1F applies order of
    magnitude to the diameter, in which case the abstract should have
    included the words "up to".

     than those formed by the closely related choanoflagellate Salpingoeca
    rosetta. In cultures maintained in the laboratory, the lumen of the
    spherical colony is filled with a branched network of extracellular
    matrix and colonized by bacteria, including diverse
    Gammaproteobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria. We propose to erect
    Barroeca monosierra gen. nov., sp. nov. Hake, Burkhardt, Richter, and
    King to accommodate this extremophile choanoflagellate. The physical
    association between bacteria and B. monosierra in culture presents a
    new experimental model for investigating interactions among bacteria
    and eukaryotes. Future work will investigate the nature of these
    interactions in wild populations and the mechanisms underpinning the
    colonization of B. monosierra spheres by bacteria.



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    alias Ernest Major

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Ernest Major on Sat Aug 24 15:32:17 2024
    On 2024-08-24 11:02:10 +0000, Ernest Major said:

    On 24/08/2024 10:54, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
    On 2024-08-23 19:59:29 +0000, erik simpson said:

    https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01623-24

    ABSTRACT
    As the closest living relatives of animals, choanoflagellates offer
    insights into the ancestry of animal cell physiology. Here, we report
    the isolation and characterization of a colonial choanoflagellate from
    Mono Lake, California. The choanoflagellate forms large spherical
    colonies that are an order of magnitude larger

    by volume, by surface area, by diameter? It makes a huge difference.

    It's open access.

    Maybe, but are you seriously suggesting that we need to go to a page on
    the web to find out how to correct a major omission in what you wrote?

    S. rosetta colonies are 10-15 micrometers in diameter. B. monosierra colonies are 10-120 micrometers in diameter. The respective modes are
    12 and 26 micrometers in diameter. So the maximum is an order of
    magnitude larger in diameter, and the mode an order of magnitude larger
    in volume. The caption to figure 1F applies order of magnitude to the diameter, in which case the abstract should have included the words "up
    to".

     than those formed by the closely related choanoflagellate Salpingoeca
    rosetta. In cultures maintained in the laboratory, the lumen of the
    spherical colony is filled with a branched network of extracellular
    matrix and colonized by bacteria, including diverse Gammaproteobacteria
    and Alphaproteobacteria. We propose to erect Barroeca monosierra gen.
    nov., sp. nov. Hake, Burkhardt, Richter, and King to accommodate this
    extremophile choanoflagellate. The physical association between
    bacteria and B. monosierra in culture presents a new experimental model
    for investigating interactions among bacteria and eukaryotes. Future
    work will investigate the nature of these interactions in wild
    populations and the mechanisms underpinning the colonization of B.
    monosierra spheres by bacteria.


    --
    Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
    in England until 1987.

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