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14.12.09 - bumped; solve it!
Johan got the last one -- it was Hoplonympha, a hypermastigote parabasalian; despite mischievously trying to look like Streblomastix (an oxymonad). If any or all of that sounded Greek/Latin to you,it's probably because it was it will be elucidated eventually, after I take care of the nematode foram parasite thing, as well as a delinquent Sunday Protist (which no one noticed, right? Good!)
Now let's look at something that appears more familiar:
Johan got the last one -- it was Hoplonympha, a hypermastigote parabasalian; despite mischievously trying to look like Streblomastix (an oxymonad). If any or all of that sounded Greek/Latin to you,
Now let's look at something that appears more familiar:
Also, to be fair, I did ask Opisthokont to pick a random clade, to give me MM ideas, and then explicitly said I won't do it. In the interests of fairness, the clade was...Breviata. So we know this is not a Breviate. Considering Breviates are this massive and famous group consisting of a tiny handful of species
Have fun! ^_^
HINT 13.12.09: The group of organisms this thing belongs to SHOULD NOT be doing this!
HINT 16.12.09: Perhaps this may help you a little.
(King 2004 Dev Cell; probably could add in a couple more lineages as 'multicellular-oid' but that's irrelevant...)
Might that be Acrasis?
ReplyDeleteNope =P
ReplyDeleteIs it the myxomycete Physarum?
ReplyDeleteNope. Wouldn't make it THAT easy!
ReplyDeleteIt sure looks like a species of Dictyostelium.
ReplyDeleteNope, sorry. Again, that would be waaaay too easy ^_~
ReplyDeleteA chytrid
ReplyDeleteNope.
ReplyDeleteTime for another hint: the answer may shock you.
Greetings from Italy
ReplyDeleteSaprolegnia? Or some other oomycete?
ReplyDeletePhytophthora infestans?
ReplyDeleteNope, not an oomycete. Right superkingdom though, in the Cavalier-Smith sense.
ReplyDeleteNeed another picture/hint?
I can't actually get access to a picture to confirm that it's Sorogena stoianovitchae, but I think you've pretty much given away that it's Sorogena stoianovitchae.
ReplyDeleteJust as I go through the trouble to post another hint!
ReplyDeleteYou got it, congrats!
Sorogena it is, a slime-mould-esque ciliate!
(feels like I did much better on the biochem final than I expected,and also I haven't slept in many hours, so I'm in a very ! mood! It's the pre-crash random energy surge! Two more to go!)