Discosoma (lat.) Is a genus of Mittens from the Discosomidae family of the order Corallimorpharia . Most species are disk-shaped corals that form a large amount of mucus [3] . They are distinguished by a variety of colors, including metallic and fluorescent shades, striped or spotted [3] .
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Discosoma nummiforme |
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| Subclass : | Six-pointed coral |
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Discosoma Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828 [1] [2] |
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Discosoma collects food particles from water. Some species absorb nutrients formed by endosymbiotic dinoflagellates living in coral tissue [3] .
They are found in the Indo-Pacific region, from East Africa and the Red Sea to Australia and the central part of the Pacific Ocean, as well as in the Caribbean and Brazil, in the Atlantic Ocean [4] .
Some species are used for decorative purposes in aquariums [3] .
From red coral Discosoma sp. Along with several other fluorescent proteins isolated from several species of non-bioluminescent corals, a red fluorescent protein ( DsRed ) was obtained [5] . Subsequently, a number of protein fluorophs with improved parameters of structure stability, quantum yield, and various fluorescence spectra were obtained from red fluorescent protein DsRed by directional mutagenesis [6] . These fluorescent proteins, along with the green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria and variants of the latter, are widely used in biological research, including cell and molecular biology.
The genus includes 11 species [7] :
- Discosoma album (Forsskål, 1775)
- Discosoma carlgreni (Watzl, 1922)
- Discosoma dawydoffi Carlgren, 1943
- Discosoma fowleri (den Hartog, 1980)
- Discosoma fungiforme (Verrill, 1869)
- Discosoma molle (Couthouy in Dana, 1846)
- Discosoma neglecta (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)
- Discosoma nummiforme Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828
- Discosoma rubraoris Saville-Kent, 1893
- Discosoma unguja Carlgren, 1900
- Discosoma viridescens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- ↑ de Blainville, HMD Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles: [ fr. ] . - Strasbourg and Paris: FG Levrault, 1830. - Vol. 60. - P. 287.
- ↑ Harmin, Cha. Systematics of the order Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). - University of Kansas, 2007. - P. 83-85. - ISBN 978-0-549-13246-2 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Sprung J. Aquarium Invertebrates: Mushrooms, Elephants Ears, And False Corals: A Review Of The Corallimorpharia. Advanced Aquarist Volume 1. October 2002.
- ↑ http://iobis.org/mapper/?taxon=Discosoma IOBIS: Sistema Integrado de Información Biogeográfica Oceánica.
- ↑ Matz MV, Fradkov AF, Labas YA, Savitsky AP, Zaraisky AG, Markelov ML et al. Fluorescent proteins from nonbioluminescent Anthozoa species (neopr.) // Nature Biotechnology . - Nature Publishing Group , 1999. - T. 17 , No. 10 . - S. 969–973 . - DOI : 10.1038 / 13657 . - PMID 10504696 .
- ↑ Shaner NC, Campbell RE, Steinbach PA, Giepmans BN, Palmer AE, Tsien RY Improved monomeric red, orange and yellow fluorescent proteins derived from Discosoma sp. red fluorescent protein (Eng.) // Nature Biotechnology : journal. - Nature Publishing Group , 2004. - Vol. 22 , no. 12 . - P. 1567-1572 . - DOI : 10.1038 / nbt1037 . - PMID 15558047 .
- ↑ Genus Discosoma (English) in the World Register of Marine Species . (Retrieved March 5, 2019) .
