Anaeromonadea | |
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Monocercomonoides melolanthae | |
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Subphylum: | Anaeromonada Cavalier-Smith, 1996/7 |
Class: | Anaeromonadea Cavalier-Smith, 1996/7,emend. 1999 |
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Anaeromonadea, also known asPreaxostyla,[1][2] is aclass ofexcavateprotists, comprising theoxymonads,Trimastix,[3] andParatrimastix.[4] This group is studied as a model system for reductive evolution ofmitochondria,[5] because it includes both organisms with anaerobic mitochondrion-like organelles (Trimastix[6] andParatrimastix[7]), and those that have completely lost theirmitochondria (oxymonadsMonocercomonoides,[8]Streblomastix, andBlattamonas[6]).
Based on the work of Zhang et al. 2015.[4]
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