| Rhizaria Temporal range: Neoproterozoic - Recent | |
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| File:Live Ammonia tepida.jpg | |
| Live Ammonia tepida (Foraminifera) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukarya |
| (unranked) | Bikonta |
| Kingdom: | Rhizaria Cavalier-Smith, 2002 |
| Phyla | |
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Cercozoa
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The Rhizaria are a species-rich supergroup of unicellular[1] eukaryotes.[2] This supergroup was proposed by Cavalier-Smith in 2002. They vary considerably in form, but for the most part they are amoeboids with filose, reticulose, or microtubule-supported pseudopods. Many produce shells or skeletons, which may be quite complex in structure, and these make up the vast majority of protozoan fossils. Nearly all have mitochondria with tubular cristae.
Groups[]
There are three main groups of Rhizaria:[3]
- Cercozoa - Various amoebae and flagellates, usually with filose pseudopods and common in soil
- Foraminifera - Amoeboids with reticulose pseudopods, common as marine benthos
- Radiolaria - Amoeboids with axopods, common as marine plankton
A few other groups may be included in the Cercozoa, but on some trees appear closer to the Foraminifera. These are the Phytomyxea and Ascetosporea, parasites of plants and animals respectively, and the peculiar amoeba Gromia. The different groups of Rhizaria are considered close relatives based mainly on genetic similarities, and have been regarded as an extension of the Cercozoa. The name Rhizaria for the expanded group was introduced by Cavalier-Smith in 2002,[4] who also included the centrohelids and Apusozoa.
Evolutionary relationship[]
Rhizaria is part of the bikont clade, which also comprises the Archaeplastida, the Chromalveolata, the Excavata, and some smaller, unresolved groups such as the Apusozoa and the Centrohelida. As bikonts, they all descend from a heterotrophic eukaryote with two flagella.
Historically, many rhizarians were considered animals, with their motility and heterotrophy as justification. However, when the five-kingdom system took prevalence over the animal-plant dichotomy, the rhizarians were put into the kingdom Protista. Then, after Woese published his three-domain system, because of the paraphyly of the kingdom Monera, taxonomists turned their attention to the eukaryote domain, and the inherent paraphyly of Protista. After much debate, which continues to this day, Rhizaria emerged as a monophyletic group.[5]
References[]
- ^ Christopher Taylor (2004). "Rhizaria".
- ^ Nikolaev SI, Berney C, Fahrni JF; et al. (2004). "The twilight of Heliozoa and rise of Rhizaria, an emerging supergroup of amoeboid eukaryotes". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (21): 8066–71. PMC 419558Freely accessible. PMID 15148395. doi:10.1073/pnas.0308602101. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ^ Moreira D, von der Heyden S, Bass D, López-García P, Chao E, Cavalier-Smith T (2007). "Global eukaryote phylogeny: Combined small- and large-subunit ribosomal DNA trees support monophyly of Rhizaria, Retaria and Excavata". Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 44 (1): 255–66. PMID 17174576. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.11.001. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ^ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (2002). "The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (2): 297–354. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 11931142. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
- ^ Fabien, Burki; Shalchian-Tabrizi, K; Minge, M; Skjaeveland, A; Nikolaev, SI; Jakobsen, KS; Pawlowski, J; Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi, Marianne Minge, Åsmund Skjæveland, Sergey I. Nikolaev, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, Jan Pawlowski (2007). Butler, Geraldine, ed. "Phylogenomics Reshuffles the Eukaryotic Supergroups". PLoS ONE. 2 (8): e790–. PMC 1949142Freely accessible. PMID 17726520. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000790. Retrieved 2008-01-24. Cite uses deprecated parameter
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