- 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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supergroup Excavata includes the
subgroups Diplomonads (Fornicata), Parabasalids, and Euglenozoans.
Diplomonads used to be
defined as Fornicata, but their...
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composition is not
entirely settled, but they
include the retortamonads,
diplomonads, and
possibly the
parabasalids and
oxymonads as well.
These four groups...
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Giardiinae is a sub-family of
diplomonads. Adl, Sina M.; B****, David; Lane,
Christopher E.; Lukeš, Julius; et al. (2018). "Revisions to the classification...
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number of
unicellular organisms, such as microsporidia,
parabasalids and
diplomonads, have
reduced or
transformed their mitochondria into
other structures...
- 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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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...
- trypanosomatids, P),
euglenids (F/A), some
heteroloboseans (P/F/S) Metamonada:
diplomonads (P/F),
retortamonads (S), Preaxostyla/anaeromonads (oxymonads, S, Trimastix...
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coenobium formation may be a
defense against grazing in some species.
Diplomonads, like Giardia, have two nuclei.
Ciliates have
cells that
contain two...
