- The
metamonads are a
large group of
flagellate amitochondriate microscopic eukaryotes. They
include the retortamonads, diplomonads, parabasalids, oxymonads...
- to
bacterial RNA than to
eukaryote RNA. Some eukaryotes, such as the
metamonads Giardia and Trichomonas, and the
amoebozoan Pelomyxa,
appear to lack mitochondria...
-
shown to
contain three widely separated eukaryote groups, the discobids,
metamonads, and malawimonads. A
current view of the
composition of the excavates...
- only
vestigial mitochondria or
derived structures: The microsporidians,
metamonads, and archamoebae.
These groups appear as the most
primitive eukaryotes...
- 186 taxa, Al
Jewari and
Baldauf proposed a
phylogenetic tree with the
metamonad Parabasalia as
basal Eukaryotes.
Discoba and the rest of the Eukaryota...
-
probably more
closely related to
Discicristata than to Jakobida. The
metamonads (Metamonada) are a
phylum of
completely anaerobic or
microaerophilic protozoa...
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Sarcoptes scabiei Scabies length (female) 0.3–0.45 mm
Sarcoptes scabiei Metamonad Giardia lamblia Giardia length 10-20 μm
Giardia lamblia Fungus Candida...
- with two
walls and a con****uous
plugged pore,
something unique among metamonads. Each cell has two
flagella of
different lengths,
inserted sub-apically...
- duodenalis,
which causes giardiasis in humans. They are
placed among the
metamonads, and
appear to be
particularly close relatives of the retortamonads. Most...
-
Trichomonas ****lis is an anaerobic,
flagellated protozoan parasite and the
causative agent of a ****ually
transmitted disease called trichomoniasis....
