Clades for Kingdom PROTISTA
Condensed greatly from Tree of Life for taxa from Kingdom Protista covered in Zool250
BASAL EUKARYOTA
(P/B refers to Pearse/Pearse/Buchsbaum/Buchsbaum, 1987, Living Invertebrates)
=================== Diplomonads (P/B phylum Metamonadida, zooflagellate, Giardia) <<=E=| | =================================== TO CROWN EUKARYOTES ===> =Mt=======| ========= Granuloreticulosa (foraminifera); rhizopod sarcodine
E= eukaryote traits (mitosis, membrane-bound organelles including: nucleus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus?, lysosomes?) Mt= mitochondria |
CROWN EUKARYOTES (condensed greatly from Tree of Life on WWW; modified as in Baldauf et al. 2000 & Moreira et al. 2000)
=======BGM========================================= TO METAZOA ===> =DCh=| ==| === Choanoflagellata; zooflagellate | | | ===M==== Fungi (mushrooms, molds, yeast, etc.) ======| | ========== Entamoebae (P/B phylum Amoebozoa; Amoeba); rhizopod sarcodine | | ==== Chlorophyceae (unicellular green algae; Chlamydamonas, Volvox); phytoflagellate <<| ===| | =Cp=| ==M= Embryophytes (land plants) | | | | ===| =====M= Rhodophyta (red algae) | | | | | =========== Glaucophyta (contain symbiotic cyanobacteria) | | | | ==N=== Ciliophora (Paramecium, Stentor, Spirostoma); the ciliates ==| | | ===| =Cp= Dinoflagellata; phytoflagellate | | ==| | ===| ==== Euapicomplexa (P/B phylum Apicomplexa, Plasmodium); sporozoan | | | | | |===MCp== Stramenopiles (incl. P/B phylum Diatomae= diatoms, brown algae & other taxa) ==| | | ========= "radiolaria" (P/B phylum Acantharia; Phaeodaria); actinopod sarcodine | | =Cp= Euglenida (Euglena); phytoflagellate ==Euglenozoa==| ==== Kinetoplastida(Trypanosoma); zooflagellate
B= blastula Ch= choanocyte (monociliated cells with ring of microvilli around flagellum & distinct flagellar vane) D= diplosome (microtubular flagellar root) G= collagen Cp= chloroplast M= multicellularity N= micro- & macro-nucleus |
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