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ArticleRoyal Society open science2018

Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes.

Aaron A Heiss, Martin Kolisko, Fleming Ekelund, Matthew W Brown, Andrew J Roger, Alastair G B Simpson

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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6 authors.

Aaron A HeissDepartment of Invertebrate Zoology and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA.
Martin KoliskoCentre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.
Fleming EkelundDepartment of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Matthew W BrownDepartment of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA.
Andrew J RogerCentre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.
Alastair G B SimpsonCentre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4133-1709

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern syntheses of eukaryote diversity assign almost all taxa to one of three groups: Amorphea, Diaphoretickes and Excavata (comprising Discoba and Metamonada). The most glaring exception is Malawimonadidae, a group of small heterotrophic flagellates that resemble Excavata by morphology, but branch with Amorphea in most phylogenomic analyses. However, just one malawimonad,

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eukaryote evolutionExcavataMetamonadaprotisttranscriptomicsultrastructure

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