- 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...
- The
ancestral opisthokont cell is ****umed to have
possessed slender filose (thread-like)
projections or 'tentacles'. In some
opisthokonts (Mesomycetozoa...
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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...
- zone
evolution and the root of the
eukaryote tree:
implications for
opisthokont origin and
classification of
kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi"....
- zone
evolution and the root of the
eukaryote tree:
implications for
opisthokont origin and
classification of
kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi"....
- "Multigene
eukaryote phylogeny reveals the
likely protozoan ancestors of
opisthokonts (animals, fungi, choanozoans) and Amoebozoa".
Molecular Phylogenetics...
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ascetosporeans In excavates: some
parabasalids In amoebozoans:
Dictyostelium In
opisthokonts: most
fungi (some chytrids, zygomycetes, some ascomycetes, basidiomycetes)...
