Dictyostelid Cellular Slime Molds from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.

ABSTRACT: Christmas Island (10°30'S, 105°40'E) is an Australian external territory located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 350 km south of Java and Sumatra and about 1,550 km northwest of the closest point on the Australian mainland. In May 2017, 20 samples of soil/humus were collected on Christmas Island and processed for dictyostelid cellular slime molds. Four species were recovered. Two of these (Dictyostelium purpureum and Cavenderia aureostipes) are common and widely distributed throughout the world, but two other species (Dictyostelium insulinativitatis sp. nov. and Dictyostelium barbarae sp. nov.) were found to be new to science and are described here.IMPORTANCE Reported here are the results of a study for dictyostelids carried out on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Six isolates representi

SUBMITTER: Liu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6458434 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature