- The
Oxymonads (or Oxymonadida) are a
group of
flagellated protists found exclusively in the
intestines of animals,
mostly termites and
other wood-eating...
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mitochondria into
other structures, e.g.
hydrogenosomes and mitosomes. The
oxymonads Monocercomonoides, Streblomastix, and
Blattamonas have
completely lost...
- they have hydrogenosomes,
mitosomes or
uncharacterised organelles. The
oxymonad Monocercomonoides is
reported to have
completely lost
homologous organelles...
- by
horizontal gene
transfer from a
eubacterium of a
common ancestor of
oxymonads.
These organisms are
significant because they
undermine ****umptions that...
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including P. pyriformis) as
sister to the
oxymonad Pyrsonympha in 2001 and a
close relationship to
oxymonads was
further supported in
another study in...
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known as Preaxostyla, is a
class of
excavate protists,
comprising the
oxymonads, Trimastix, and Paratrimastix. This
group is
studied as a
model system...
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include the retortamonads, diplomonads, and
possibly the
parabasalids and
oxymonads as well.
These four
groups are all
anaerobic (many
being aerotolerant...
- Vladimír (November 2018). "Molecular and
Morphological Diversity of the
Oxymonad Genera Monocercomonoides and
Blattamonas gen. nov". Protist. 169 (5): 744–783...
- one-divisional meiosis,
occurs in some
flagellates (parabasalids and
oxymonads) from the gut of the wood-feeding ****roach Cryptocercus. Recombination...
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called the axostyle, but is
different in
structure from the
axostyles of
oxymonads.
Parabasalids are anaerobic, and lack mitochondria, but this is now known...
