- The
opisthokonts (from
Ancient Gr**** ὀπίσθιος (opísthios) 'rear, posterior' and κοντός (kontós) 'pole, i.e. flagellum') are a
broad group of eukaryotes...
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Choanozoa is a
clade of
opisthokont eukaryotes consisting of the
choanoflagellates (Choanoflagellatea) and the
animals (Animalia, Metazoa). The sister-group...
- the
development of the
opisthokonts in
which the main
lineages of
animals and
fungi emerged. The
relationships among opisthokonts,
breviates and apusomonads...
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authors and
other scientists later rejected. It
includes amoebozoa,
opisthokonts, and Apusomonada.
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
proposed two new phyla: Sulcozoa...
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penetrate into the host
cells to
consume nutrients.
Although fungi are
opisthokonts—a
grouping of
evolutionarily related organisms broadly characterized...
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analyses suggest that
Agnotozoa may
share a
common ancestry with
certain opisthokont or
stramenopile lineages,
though their precise evolutionary placement...
- All
steroids are
manufactured in
cells from the
sterols lanosterol (
opisthokonts) or
cycloartenol (plants).
Lanosterol and
cycloartenol are
derived from...
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supergroup of
eukaryotes known as Opisthokonta.
Holozoa diverged from
their opisthokont ancestor around 1070
million years ago (Mya). The choanoflagellates,...
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which refers to
their evolutionary position. On
Eukaryota tree, in
Opisthokont clade,
Mesomycetozoea is in the
middle ("Meso-") of the
fungi ("-myceto-")...
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distantly to the
lineage that gave rise to
choanoflagellates and
metazoa opisthokonts, the
group which includes animals, fungi. Some use a
broad definition...
