Discicristata

Discicristata Temporal range: 1200–0 Ma Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had.
The heterolobosean protozoa species Acrasis rosea Olive & Stoian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Discoba
Superphylum:	Discicristata
Phyla
Euglenozoa Percolozoa
Synonyms
Discomitochondria Margulis & Schwartz, 1998

Discicristata is a proposed eukaryotic clade. It consists of Euglenozoa plus Percolozoa. ^[1]

It was proposed that Discicristata plus Cercozoa yielded Cabozoa. ^[2] Another proposal is to group Discicristata with Jakobida into Discoba superphylum. ^[3]

Two Euglena

See also

• Excavata

References

1. Cavalier-Smith T (November 2003). "The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53 (Pt 6): 1741–58. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0 . PMID   14657102.
2. Cavalier-Smith T (1999). "Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree". J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 46 (4): 347–66. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04614.x. PMID   18092388. S2CID   22759799.
3. Hampl V, Hug L, Leigh JW, et al. (March 2009). "Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106 (10): 3859–64. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.3859H. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807880106 . PMC   2656170 . PMID   19237557.