TY - JOUR AU - Tice, Alexander K. AU - Shadwick, Lora L. AU - Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria AU - Geisen, Stefan AU - Kang, Seungho AU - Schuler, Gabriel A. AU - Spiegel, Frederick W. AU - Wilkinson, Katherine A. AU - Bonkowski, Michael AU - Dumack, Kenneth AU - Lahr, Daniel J. G. AU - Voelcker, Eckhard AU - Clauß, Steffen AU - Zhang, Junling AU - Brown, Matthew W. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/12/28 TI - Expansion of the molecular and morphological diversity of Acanthamoebidae (Centramoebida, Amoebozoa) and identification of a novel life cycle type within the group JO - Biology Direct SP - 69 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Acanthamoebidae is a “family” level amoebozoan group composed of the genera Acanthamoeba, Protacanthamoeba, and very recently Luapeleamoeba. This clade of amoebozoans has received considerable attention from the broader scientific community as Acanthamoeba spp. represent both model organisms and human pathogens. While the classical composition of the group (Acanthamoeba + Protacanthamoeba) has been well accepted due to the morphological and ultrastructural similarities of its members, the Acanthamoebidae has never been highly statistically supported in single gene phylogenetic reconstructions of Amoebozoa either by maximum likelihood (ML) or Bayesian analyses. SN - 1745-6150 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13062-016-0171-0 DO - 10.1186/s13062-016-0171-0 ID - Tice2016 ER -