- 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...
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symbiotic relationships with cellulase-producing
bacteria (see
termites and
metamonads.) This
allows termites to use the energy-dense
cellulose carbohydrate...
- duodenalis,
which causes giardiasis in humans. They are
placed among the
metamonads, and
appear to be
particularly close relatives of the retortamonads. Most...
- to
bacterial RNA than to
eukaryote RNA. Some eukaryotes, such as the
metamonads Giardia and Trichomonas, and the
amoebozoan Pelomyxa,
appear to lack mitochondria...
- only
vestigial mitochondria or
derived structures: The microsporidians,
metamonads, and archamoebae.
These groups appear as the most
primitive eukaryotes...
-
probably more
closely related to
Discicristata than to Jakobida. The
metamonads (Metamonada) are a
phylum of
completely anaerobic or
microaerophilic protozoa...
- kinetosomes, one or two
vanes in
posterior cilium. 3
Metamonada Middle monads Metamonads Anaerobic or microaerophilic, some
without mitochondria; four kinetosomes...
- with two
walls and a con****uous
plugged pore,
something unique among metamonads. Each cell has two
flagella of
different lengths,
inserted sub-apically...
-
parabasalids are
probably related to them,
forming a
group called the
metamonads. They lack the
feeding grooves found in most others, but this is probably...
