-
oxymonads have
multiple nuclei, flagella, and axostyles. The free-living
flagellates Trimastix and
Paratrimastix are
closely related to the
oxymonads...
-
known as Preaxostyla, is a
class of
excavate protists,
comprising the
oxymonads, Trimastix, and Paratrimastix. This
group is
studied as a
model system...
-
include the retortamonads, diplomonads, and
possibly the
parabasalids and
oxymonads as well.
These four
groups are all
anaerobic (many
being aerotolerant...
- even more
closely related to
oxymonads than Trimastix.
Preaxostyla (consisting of Trimastix, Paratrimastix, and
oxymonads) is now
considered one of the...
- by
horizontal gene
transfer from a
eubacterium of a
common ancestor of
oxymonads.
These organisms are
significant because they
undermine ****umptions that...
-
mitochondria into
other structures, e.g.
hydrogenosomes and mitosomes. The
oxymonads Monocercomonoides, Streblomastix, and
Blattamonas have
completely lost...
- ****ociation with a
flagellar microtubular root and
occur in two groups, the
oxymonads and parabasalids; they have
different structures and are not homologous...
- Metamonada:
diplomonads (P/F),
retortamonads (S), Preaxostyla/anaeromonads (
oxymonads, S, Trimastix, F, Paratrimastix, F),
parabasalids (trichomonads, P/S,...
-
called the axostyle, but is
different in
structure from the
axostyles of
oxymonads.
Parabasalids are anaerobic, and lack mitochondria, but this is now known...
- they have hydrogenosomes,
mitosomes or
uncharacterised organelles. The
oxymonad Monocercomonoides is
reported to have
completely lost
homologous organelles...
