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Discicristata

Discicristata
Temporal range: 1200–0 Ma
The heterolobosean protozoa species "Acrasis rosea" Olive & Stoian
The heterolobosean protozoa species Acrasis rosea Olive & Stoian
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Discoba
Superphylum: Discicristata
Phyla
Synonyms

Discomitochondria
Margulis & Schwartz, 1998

Discicristata is a proposed eukaryotic clade. It consists of Euglenozoa plus Percolozoa.[1]

It was proposed that Discicristata plus Cercozoa yielded Cabozoa.[2] Another proposal is to group Discicristata with Jakobida into Discoba superphylum.[3]

Two Euglena

See also

References

  1. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (November 2003). "The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53 (Pt 6): 1741–58. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0. PMID 14657102.
  2. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (1999). "Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 46 (4): 347–66. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04614.x. PMID 18092388. S2CID 22759799.
  3. ^ Hampl V, Hug L, Leigh JW, et al. (March 2009). "Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106 (10): 3859–64. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.3859H. doi:10.1073/pnas.0807880106. PMC 2656170. PMID 19237557.


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