Abstract
Pirsoniales is a stramenopile order composed of marine parasitoids of diatoms with unique life cycle. Until recently, a single genus, Pirsonia, uniting six species, was known. The recent identification of new free-living eukaryotrophic Pirsoniales Pirsonia chemainus, Feodosia pseudopoda, and Koktebelia satura changed our understanding of this group as exclusively parasitic. However, their cell ultrastructure and feeding preferences were not fully studied due to the death of the cultures. In this study, we re-isolated some of these Pirsoniales and established six new strains exhibiting predatory behavior, including a first freshwater representative. This allowed us to describe five new genera and species, as well as to emend the diagnosis of the order Pirsoniales. The 18S rRNA gene phylogenetic analysis revealed the position of new strains within Pirsoniales and their relationships with parasitoid relatives and environmental sequence lineages. Feeding experiments on novel Pirsoniales strains using diverse algal prey showed that they were not able to form trophosomes and auxosomes. The ability of cell aggregation in Pirsoniales was observed for the first time. One of the studied strains contained intracellular gammaproteobacteria distantly related to Coxiella. Ultrastructural analyses revealed a more complex cytoskeleton structure in Pirsoniales than previously thought and supported the monophyly of Bigyromonadea and Pseudofungi.
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