Strigomonadinae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Discoba |
Phylum: | Euglenozoa |
Class: | Kinetoplastea |
Order: | Trypanosomatida |
Family: | Trypanosomatidae |
Subfamily: | Strigomonadinae Votypka et al. 2014 |
Genera | |
Strigomonadinae is a subfamily of protists in the order Trypanosomatida. All species in this taxon harbor endodymbiontic bacteria of the Candidatus Kinetoplastibacterium genus. [1]
Several species of the Strigomonadinae, notably Strigomonas culicis and Angomonas deanei have been researched as "excellent models for the study of cell evolution because the host protozoan co-evolves with an intracellular bacterium in a mutualistic relationship", [2] and "the origin of new organelles" (i.e. symbiogenesis). [3]