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) | | ================================= TO CROWN EUKARYOTES ===> <<=E=| ===| | ======| = ? == Entamoebae (P/B phylum Amoebozoa, rhizopod sarcodine group, Amoeba) | | | =Mt=| == ? === Granuloreticulosa (P/B phylum Granuloreticulosa, foramenifera) | | =Cp= Euglenids (P/B phylum Euglenida, phytoglagellate group, Euglena) =Euglenozoa| ==== Kinetoplastida (zooflagellate group, Trypanosoma)
Traits mapped on above tree:
E= eukaryote traits (mitosis, membrane-bound organelles including: nucleus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus?, lysosomes?)
Mt= mitochondria present
Cp= chloroplast present
CROWN EUKARYOTES (condensed greatly from Tree of Life on WWW)
=======BGM========================================= TO METAZOA ===> =DCh=| ==| === Choanoflagellates (P/B phylum Choanoflagellata, zooglagellate group) | | | ===M==== Fungi (mushrooms, molds, yeast, etc.) ===| | | ==Cp=== Chlorophyceae (green algae, Chlamydamonas, Volvox, phytoflagellate group) | |==| | | ==M==== Embryophytes (land plants) | | | =====MCp== Rhodophyta (red algae) | | ==N==== ciliates (P/B phylum Ciliophora; Paramecium, Stentor, Spirostoma) <<===| | | ===| =Cp= dinoflagellates (P/B phylum Dinoflagellata, phytoflagellate) | | ===| | | ==== Euapicomplexa (P/B phylum Apicomplexa, sporozoan, Plasmodium) ===| |====MCp== Stramenopiles (incl. P/B phylum Diatomae= diatoms, brown algae & other taxa) | =====Cp==== "radiolaria" (P/B phylum Acantharia, Phaeodaria, actinopod sarcodine)
Traits mapped on above tree:
B= blastula
Ch= choanocyte (monociliated cells with ring of microvilli around cilium)
D= diplosome
G= collagen
Cp= chloroplast
M= multicellularity
N= micro- & macro-nucleus
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