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The dimorphids[1] or heliomonads[2] are a small group of heliozoa that are unusual in possessing flagella throughout their life-cycle.
There are two genera:
- Dimorpha, a tiny organism found in freshwater
- the larger Tetradimorpha, which is distinguished by having four rather than two flagella.
Bundles of microtubules, typically in square array, arise from a body near the flagellar bases and support the numerous axopods that project from the cell surface.
Dimorphids have a single nucleus, and mitochondria with tubular cristae. Genetic studies place them among the Cercozoa, a group including various other flagellates that form pseudopods.
References
- ^ Nikolaev SI, Berney C, Fahrni JF, et al. (May 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. doi:. PMID 15148395. PMC: 419558. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15148395.
- ^ Bass D, Chao EE, Nikolaev S, et al. (February 2009). "Phylogeny of novel naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised". Protist 160 (1): 75–109. doi:. PMID 18952499. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1434-4610(08)00044-8.
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