Bigyromonada

Bigyromonada
Develorapax marinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Bigyromonada
Cavalier-Smith 1998[1]
Classes[2]

Bigyromonada is a recently described non-photosynthetic lineage of stramenopiles that at present contains two classes.[2][3][4]

Description

Bigyromonads are characterized by biciliate cells that feed on bacteria through phagotrophy. They are marine organisms.[2]

Taxonomy

References

  1. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (August 1998). "A revised six-kingdom system of life". Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 73 (3): 203–266. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1998.tb00030.x. PMID 9809012.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (5 September 2017). "Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences". Protoplasma. 255 (1): 297–357. doi:10.1007/s00709-017-1147-3. PMC 5756292. PMID 28875267.
  3. ^ Ruggiero; et al. (2015), "Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms", PLOS ONE, 10 (4): e0119248, Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019248R, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119248, PMC 4418965, PMID 25923521
  4. ^ Silar, Philippe (2016), "Protistes Eucaryotes: Origine, Evolution et Biologie des Microbes Eucaryotes", HAL Archives-ouvertes: 1–462
  5. ^ Aleoshin; et al. (2016), "Heterokont Predator Develorapax marinus gen. et sp. nov.- A Model of the Ochrophyte Ancestor", Front Microbiol, 7 (1194): 1194, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01194, PMC 4971089, PMID 27536283