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Phagocytosis (from
Ancient Gr**** φαγεῖν (phagein) 'to eat' and κύτος (kytos) 'cell') is the
process by
which a cell uses its
plasma membrane to engulf...
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distinguished three groups, Peranemoidées (flexible
phagotrophs), Petalomonadinées (rigid
phagotrophs) and Euglenidinées (phototrophs), and was
widely accepted...
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Incomplete or
atypical flagellates Hemimastigotes Ellipsoid or
vermiform phagotrophs, two
slightly spiraling rows of
around 12
cilia each,
thecal plates below...
- lifestyle; and the bigyromonads, a
group of
bacterivorous or
eukaryovorous phagotrophs. A
small group of heliozoan-like
heterotrophic amoebae, Actinophryida...
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chlorophylls a and b and lack phycobilins.
Corroborating this, a
basal phagotroph Archaeplastida group has been
found in the Rhodelphydia. In some classification...
- clades: Peranemida, a
group of
phagotrophs whose monophyly is yet to be proven, and Anisonemia,
which contains various phagotrophs and a
clade of osmotrophs...
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between an ancestral,
photosynthetic cyanobacterium and an
early eukaryotic phagotroph. This
event (termed
primary endosymbiosis) is at the
origin of the red...
- environments. Previously,
dinoflagellates had been
grouped into two categories,
phagotrophs and phototrophs. Mixotrophs,
however include a
combination of phagotrophy...
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likely not
obligate photoautotrophs but
rather facultative mixotrophs or
phagotrophs,
whereby transient detection of
orange fluorescence could represent ingested...
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Neoproterozoic rise of the
algae likely stimulated growth and
activity of
phagotrophs living in the
anoxic conditions, is
presented by
Mills et al. (2025)...
