The opisthokonts (from Ancient Greek ὀπίσθιος (opísthios) 'rear, posterior', and κοντός (kontós) 'pole, i.e. flagellum') are a broad group of eukaryotes...

zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi"....

Choanozoa is a clade of opisthokont eukaryotes consisting of the choanoflagellates (Choanoflagellatea) and the animals (Animalia, Metazoa). The sister-group...

The ancestral opisthokont cell is assumed to have possessed slender filose (thread-like) projections or 'tentacles'. In some opisthokonts (Mesomycetozoa...

the development of the opisthokonts in which the main lineages of animals and fungi emerged. The relationships among opisthokonts, breviates and apusomonads...

authors and other scientists later rejected. It includes amoebozoa, opisthokonts, and Apusomonada. Thomas Cavalier-Smith proposed two new phyla: Sulcozoa...

supergroup of eukaryotes known as Opisthokonta. Holozoa diverged from their opisthokont ancestor around 1070 million years ago (Mya). The choanoflagellates,...

v t e Opisthokont: True fungi classification, fungal orders Domain Archaea Bacteria Eukaryota (major groups Excavata Diaphoretickes Hacrobia Rhizaria...

The cladogram depicts the major fungal taxa and their relationship to opisthokont and unikont organisms. The lengths of the branches in this tree are not...

zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi"....

closest protist relatives inside a clade known as Opisthokonta. The opisthokont protists are Nucleariida, Ichthyosporea, Pluriformea, Filasterea, Choanoflagellata...

which refers to their evolutionary position. On Eukaryota tree, in Opisthokont clade, Mesomycetozoea is in the middle ("Meso-") of the fungi ("-myceto-")...

cdka;1 A. thaliana mutants are still viable, running counter to the opisthokont pattern of CDK1-type kinases as essential regulators controlling the...

eukaryotes with plastids from cyanobacteria; e.g. red and green algae) and opisthokonts (giving rise to the first fungi and holozoans). Acritarchs (remains of...

"Multigene eukaryote phylogeny reveals the likely protozoan ancestors of opisthokonts (animals, fungi, choanozoans) and Amoebozoa". Molecular Phylogenetics...

ascetosporeans In excavates: some parabasalids In amoebozoans: Dictyostelium In opisthokonts: most fungi (some chytrids, zygomycetes, some ascomycetes, basidiomycetes)...

penetrate into the host cells to consume nutrients. Although fungi are opisthokonts—a grouping of evolutionarily related organisms broadly characterized...

Holomycota or Nucletmycea are a basal Opisthokont clade as sister of the Holozoa. It consists of the Cristidiscoidea and the kingdom Fungi. The position...

zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi"....

parasite. The genome of E. histolytica has been found to have snoRNAs with opisthokont-like features. The E. histolytica U3 snoRNA (Eh_U3 snoRNA) has showed...

related to animals. It has a rare feeding structure not seen in other opisthokonts. Tunicaraptor unikontum is a small unicellular flagellate composed of...

evolutionary interest because they appear to be the sister group to the Opisthokonts, the clade that includes both animals and fungi. Together with the Breviatea...

to the class Trichomycetes, but now considered to be members of the opisthokont group Mesomycetozoea. Order: Eccrinales Family: Eccrinaceae Family: Palavasciaceae...

lifestyles. Together with Apusomonads, they are the closest relatives of the Opisthokonts, a group that includes animals and fungi. Mitochondrion-related organelles...

All steroids are manufactured in cells from the sterols lanosterol (opisthokonts) or cycloartenol (plants). Lanosterol and cycloartenol are derived from...

zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi"....

opisthobranch, opisthodomos, opisthoglyphous, opisthognathous, opisthograph, opisthokont, opisthosoma, opsimath, opsimathy ops-, opt- (ΟΠ) eye Greek ὄψεσθαι (ópsesthai)...

v t e Opisthokont: True fungi classification, fungal orders Domain Archaea Bacteria Eukaryota (major groups Excavata Diaphoretickes Hacrobia Rhizaria...

some gymnosperms According to the place of insertion of the flagella: opisthokont: cells with flagella inserted posteriorly, e.g., in Opisthokonta (Vischer...

v t e Opisthokont: True fungi classification, fungal orders Domain Archaea Bacteria Eukaryota (major groups Excavata Diaphoretickes Hacrobia Rhizaria...