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distinguished three groups, Peranemoidées (flexible
phagotrophs), Petalomonadinées (rigid
phagotrophs) and Euglenidinées (phototrophs), and was
widely accepted...
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Phagocytosis (from
Ancient Gr**** φαγεῖν (phagein) 'to eat' and κύτος (kytos) 'cell') is the
process by
which a cell uses its
plasma membrane to engulf...
- clades: Peranemida, a
group of
phagotrophs whose monophyly is yet to be proven, and Anisonemia,
which contains various phagotrophs and a
clade of osmotrophs...
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Incomplete or
atypical flagellates Hemimastigotes Ellipsoid or
vermiform phagotrophs, two
slightly spiraling rows of
around 12
cilia each,
thecal plates below...
- two orders,
differentiated by
their modes of locomotion: Anisonemida,
phagotrophs that
perform a
gliding motion with
their anterior flagellum, and Natomonadida...
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chlorophylls a and b and lack phycobilins.
Corroborating this, a
basal phagotroph Archaeplastida group has been
found in the Rhodelphydia. In some classification...
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between an ancestral,
photosynthetic cyanobacterium and an
early eukaryotic phagotroph. This
event (termed
primary endosymbiosis) is at the
origin of the red...
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functional group in all ecosystems, with
three main
taxonomical groups of
phagotrophs:
Rhizaria (mainly
Cercozoa in
freshwater and soil habitats, and Radiolaria...
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organisms Saprotrophs that
absorbed nutrients from
decaying organisms Phagotrophs that were
sufficiently complex to
envelop and
digest particulate nutrients...
- environments. Previously,
dinoflagellates had been
grouped into two categories,
phagotrophs and phototrophs. Mixotrophs,
however include a
combination of phagotrophy...
