Bodo (excavate)

Bodo (/ˈboʊdoʊ/) is a genus of microscopic kinetoplastids first described in 1831 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg[1]. The genus is small, as it has recently been redefined to include only four species[2]. Bodo includes free-living, phagotrophic organisms that can be found in many marine and freshwater environments as well as some terrestrial environments. Being phagotrophic, Bodo feeds on bacteria and other microorganisms that it finds while swimming through its water-based habitats[3]. The swimming-like movement is facilitated by the two unequal flagella that Bodo possesses which arise from an anteriorly located flagellar pocket[4]. Bodo is roughly bean-shaped and is often missed in samples from water or terrestrial environments due to its small size.

Bodo
Bodo saltans
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
Excavata
Phylum:
Euglenozoa
Class:
Kinetoplastida
Order:
Eubodonida
Family:
Bodonida
Genus:
Bodo

Ehrenberg, 1831.

References
  1. Ehrenberg C.G. 1831. Über die Entwicklung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere nebst ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systemen. Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1-154.
  2. Cavalier-Smith, T. 2016. Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa. European Journal of Protistology 56, 250–276.
  3. Davidovich, N.A., Davidovich, O.I., Podunay, Yu.A., Polyakova, S.L., Gastineau, R. 2019. Decontamination of Diatom Algae Cultures Contaminated with the Kinetoplastid Bodo saltans Ehrenberg, 1832. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 74, 63–68.
  4. Mitchell, G.C., Baker, J.H., Sleigh, M.A. 1988. Feeding of a Freshwater Flagellate, Bodo saltans, on Diverse Bacteria1. The Journal of Protozoology 35, 219–222.
  5. Moreira, D., López-García, P., Vickerman, K. 2004. An Updated View of kinetoplastid Phylogeny Using Environmental Sequences and a Closer Outgroup: Proposal for a New
  6. Jackson, A.P., Quail, M.A., Berriman, M. 2008. Insights into the genome sequence of a free-living Kinetoplastid: Bodo saltans (Kinetoplastida: Euglenozoa). BMC Genomics 9, 594.
  7. Deeg, C.M., Chow, C.-E.T., Suttle, C.A. 2018. The kinetoplastid-infecting Bodo saltans virus (BsV), a window into the most abundant giant viruses in the sea. eLife 7, e33014.
  8. Lukeš, J., Lys Guilbride, D., Vot••pka, J., Zíková, A., Benne, R., Englund, P.T. (2002). Kinetoplast DNA Network: Evolution of an Improbable Structure. Eukaryot Cell 1, 495–502
  9. Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org


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