- The
metamonads are a
large group of
flagellate amitochondriate microscopic eukaryotes. They
include the retortamonads, diplomonads, parabasalids, oxymonads...
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shown to
contain three widely separated eukaryote groups, the discobids,
metamonads, and malawimonads. A
current view of the
composition of the excavates...
- only
vestigial mitochondria or
derived structures: The microsporidians,
metamonads, and archamoebae.
These groups appear as the most
primitive eukaryotes...
- to
bacterial RNA than to
eukaryote RNA. Some eukaryotes, such as the
metamonads Giardia and Trichomonas, and the
amoebozoan Pelomyxa,
appear to lack mitochondria...
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Octomitus is a
genus of Excavata. It
includes the
species Octomitus intestinalis.
Keeling PJ,
Brugerolle G (June 2006). "Evidence from SSU rRNA phylogeny...
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probably more
closely related to
Discicristata than to Jakobida. The
metamonads (Metamonada) are a
phylum of
completely anaerobic or
microaerophilic protozoa...
- 186 taxa, Al
Jewari and
Baldauf proposed a
phylogenetic tree with the
metamonad Parabasalia as
basal Eukaryotes.
Discoba and the rest of the Eukaryota...
- kinetosomes, one or two
vanes in
posterior cilium. 3
Metamonada Middle monads Metamonads Anaerobic or microaerophilic, some
without mitochondria; four kinetosomes...
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protist (Amoebozoa)
without mitochondria Monocercomonoides, a
protist (
Metamonad)
without mitochondria Loricifera,
other metazoans; some
species don't...
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Sarcoptes scabiei Scabies length (female) 0.3–0.45 mm
Sarcoptes scabiei Metamonad Giardia lamblia Giardia length 10-20 μm
Giardia lamblia Fungus Candida...
