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Phylogenetic and ecological diversity of apusomonads, a lineage of deep-branching eukaryotes.
Environmental microbiology reports - 1 Apr 2017
Torruella Guifré, Moreira David, López-García Purificación
Abstract excerpt
Apusomonads are a mysterious group of heterotrophic gliding biflagellates branching deeply in the eukaryotic tree of life as sister group to opisthokonts (including animals, fungi, and a variety of unicellular protists). Despite their evolutionary interest, their diversity and ecology remain largely unknown, with very few described species and environmental sequences in databases. Most environmental 18S rRNA...
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