Tsitologiya  2013  55 (11) : 778–787
COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF THE SUBPHILUM CONOSA CAVALIER-SMITH 1998

L.V. Chistiakova,1,* O.A Miteva,2 A.O. Frolov,2 S.O. Skarlato 3

1 St. Petersburg State University, 2 Zoological Institute RAS, and 3 Institute of Cytology RAS, St. Petersburg;
* e-mail: batsnwr@mail.ru

Comparative analysis of archamoebae and slime molds morphology revealed that this organisms have a marked similarity in organization of locomotive forms, structure of glycocalix and also in organization of nuclear and flagellar apparatus. A possible scheme of formation the modern diversity of Conosa group was proposed.

Key words:  Conosa, Archamoebeae, Mycetozoa, comparative morphology, biodiversity


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