Kingdoms Protozoa and Chromista and the eozoan root of the eukaryotic tree.

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I discuss eukaryotic deep phylogeny and reclassify the basal eukaryotic kingdom Protozoa and derived kingdom Chromista in the light of multigene trees. I transfer the formerly protozoan Heliozoa and infrakingdoms Alveolata and Rhizaria into Chromista, which is sister to kingdom Plantae and arguably originated by synergistic double internal enslavement of green algal and red algal cells. I establish new subkingdoms (Harosa; Hacrobia) for the expanded Chromista. The protozoan phylum Euglenozoa ...

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Authors: Cavalier-Smith, T

• Journal: Biology letters
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 342-345
• Publication date: 2010-06-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0948
• EISSN: 1744-957X
• ISSN: 1744-9561
• Language: English
• Keywords: Evolution, Molecular; Euglenozoa; Cytoskeleton; Rhizaria; Chlorophyll; Cytochromes c1; Phylogeny; DNA, Mitochondrial; Eukaryota; Cytochromes c; Chlorophyta; Rhodophyta; DNA, Protozoan; Alveolata