- The
diplomonads (Gr**** for "two units") are a
group of flagellates, most of
which are parasitic. They
include Giardia duodenalis,
which causes giardiasis...
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genus is
named after French zoologist Alfred Mathieu Giard. Like
other diplomonads,
Giardia have two nuclei, each with four ****ociated flagella, and were...
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amitochondriate microscopic eukaryotes. They
include the retortamonads,
diplomonads, parabasalids, oxymonads, and a
range of more
poorly studied taxa, most...
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number of
unicellular organisms, such as microsporidia,
parabasalids and
diplomonads, have
reduced or
transformed their mitochondria into
other structures...
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supergroup Excavata includes the
subgroups Diplomonads (Fornicata), Parabasalids, and Euglenozoans.
Diplomonads used to be
defined as Fornicata, but their...
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Spironucleus is a
diplomonad genus that is
bilaterally symmetrical and can be
found in
various animal hosts. This
genus is a
binucleate flagellate, which...
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Hexamita is a
genus of
parasitic diplomonads. It is
related to Giardia. H.
columbae and H.
meleagridis live in the
intestines of birds. H.
muris and H...
- apparatus, dictyosomes, and peroxisomes. They are
close relatives of the
diplomonads, and are
placed among the
metamonads along with them. Due to the abundant...
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Parabasalia and Preaxostyla.
Fornicata (>140 species) encomp****es the
diplomonads, with two
nuclei (e.g., Giardia), and
several smaller groups of free-living...
- Neoproterozoic–present Pha.
Proterozoic Archean Had.
Giardia lamblia, a
parasitic diplomonad Scientific classification (obsolete as paraphyletic) Domain: Eukaryota...
