Table 1 Taxonomic, isolation, and data generation information for all isolates used in this study
Species Examined | Proposed New Name | Strain | Culture Collection | Accession Number | Isolator/Depositor | Habitat | Collection Location | Coordinates | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Protostelium pyriformis | Acanthamoeba pyriformis n. comb. | CR15 | CCAP | 1501/19 | K.Wilkinson/M.W. Brown | Leaf litter | Costa Rica | 8.783333° N -82.966667° E | morphological, SSU, RNA |
Protostelium arachisporum | Luapeleamoeba arachisporum n. comb. | OG15 | CCAP | 2545/1 | M.W. Brown/M.W. Brown | Leaf litter | Winston County, Mississippii (USA) | 33.219118° N -89.098003° E | morphological, SSU, RNA |
Protostelium arachisporum | Luapeleamoeba arachisporum n. comb. | CR15 | NA | NA | A.K. Tice/NA | Leaf litter | Costa Rica | 8.783333° N -82.966667° E | morphological, SSU |
Protostelium arachisporum | Luapeleamoeba arachisporum n. comb. | AMFD | NA | NA | A.M. Fiore-Donno/NA | Leaf litter | Geneva, Switzerland | 46.1358° N 5.9695° E | morphological, SSU |
Protostelium arachisporum | Luapeleamoeba arachisporum n. comb. | PKB06-4 L-1 | NA | NA | M.W. Brown/NA | Leaf litter | Pilot's Knob, Arkansas (USA) | 36.240990° N -93.225232° E | morphological, SSU |
Unknown soil amoeba | Vacuolamoeba acanthoformis n.g. n.sp. | Tib 84 | CCAP | 2580/1 | K. Dumack/M.W. Brown | High Altitude Soil | Tibet | 29.700000° N 92.166667° E | morphological, SSU |
Unknown soil amoeba | Vacuolamoeba sp. n.g. . | Tib 168 | NA | NA | K. Dumack/NA | High Altitude Soil | Tibet | 29.866667° N 92.550000° E | SSU |
Stereomyxa ramosa | Dracoamoeba jomungandri n.g. n.sp. | Chinc5 | ATCC | 50982 | T.A. Nerad/T.A. Nerad | moist soil from mud flat approximately 800 yards from the ocean | Chincoteague, Virginia (USA) | NA | morphological, SSU (bioinformatically) |
Luapeleamoeba hula | Not Applicable | LHI05 | ATCC | PRA-198 | L.L. Shadwick/F.W. Spiegel | Leaf litter | Hawaii (USA) | NA | morphological, RNA |
Protacanthamoeba bohemica | Not Applicable | TT3H | Institue of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice | NA | I. Dykova | Liver of Tinca Tinca | Spolský pond, South Bohemia (Czech Republic) | NA | morphological, RNA |
Endostelium zonatum | Not Applicable | LHI05M6a-1 | ATCC | PRA-191 | L.L. Shadwick/F.W. Spiegel | Leaf litter | Hawaii (USA) | NA | RNA |
Pellita catalonica | Not Applicable | CON-1 | ATCC | PRA-25 | T.A. Nerad/T.A. Nerad | carapace of an American lobster, Homarus americanus | Conneticut (USA) | NA | RNA |