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- The metamonads are a large group of flagellate amitochondriate microscopic eukaryotes. They include the retortamonads, diplomonads, parabasalids, oxymonads...
- shown to contain three widely separated eukaryote groups, the discobids, metamonads, and malawimonads. A current view of the composition of the excavates...
- 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...
- 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...
- as sister of the Diap****tickes. Basal Scotokaryote groupings are the Metamonads, the Malawimonas and the Podiata. In this phylogeny the Discoba are sometimes...