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Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses

Euglenozoa is a species-rich group of protists, which have extremely diverse lifestyles and a range of features that distinguish them from other eukaryotes. They are composed of free-living and parasitic kinetoplastids, mostly free-living diplonemids, heterotrophic and photosynthetic euglenids, as w...

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Autores principales: Kostygov, Alexei Y., Karnkowska, Anna, Votýpka, Jan, Tashyreva, Daria, Maciszewski, Kacper, Yurchenko, Vyacheslav, Lukeš, Julius
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Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8061765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33715388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsob.200407
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author Kostygov, Alexei Y.
Karnkowska, Anna
Votýpka, Jan
Tashyreva, Daria
Maciszewski, Kacper
Yurchenko, Vyacheslav
Lukeš, Julius
author_facet Kostygov, Alexei Y.
Karnkowska, Anna
Votýpka, Jan
Tashyreva, Daria
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description Euglenozoa is a species-rich group of protists, which have extremely diverse lifestyles and a range of features that distinguish them from other eukaryotes. They are composed of free-living and parasitic kinetoplastids, mostly free-living diplonemids, heterotrophic and photosynthetic euglenids, as well as deep-sea symbiontids. Although they form a well-supported monophyletic group, these morphologically rather distinct groups are almost never treated together in a comparative manner, as attempted here. We present an updated taxonomy, complemented by photos of representative species, with notes on diversity, distribution and biology of euglenozoans. For kinetoplastids, we propose a significantly modified taxonomy that reflects the latest findings. Finally, we summarize what is known about viruses infecting euglenozoans, as well as their relationships with ecto- and endosymbiotic bacteria.
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spelling pubmed-80617652021-05-05 Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses Kostygov, Alexei Y. Karnkowska, Anna Votýpka, Jan Tashyreva, Daria Maciszewski, Kacper Yurchenko, Vyacheslav Lukeš, Julius Open Biol Review Euglenozoa is a species-rich group of protists, which have extremely diverse lifestyles and a range of features that distinguish them from other eukaryotes. They are composed of free-living and parasitic kinetoplastids, mostly free-living diplonemids, heterotrophic and photosynthetic euglenids, as well as deep-sea symbiontids. Although they form a well-supported monophyletic group, these morphologically rather distinct groups are almost never treated together in a comparative manner, as attempted here. We present an updated taxonomy, complemented by photos of representative species, with notes on diversity, distribution and biology of euglenozoans. For kinetoplastids, we propose a significantly modified taxonomy that reflects the latest findings. Finally, we summarize what is known about viruses infecting euglenozoans, as well as their relationships with ecto- and endosymbiotic bacteria. The Royal Society 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8061765/ /pubmed/33715388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsob.200407 Text en © 2021 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Karnkowska, Anna
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Tashyreva, Daria
Maciszewski, Kacper
Yurchenko, Vyacheslav
Lukeš, Julius
Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses
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title_full Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses
title_fullStr Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses
title_full_unstemmed Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses
title_short Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8061765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33715388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsob.200407
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