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Opisthokont characteristics include synthesis of extracellular chitin in exoskeleton, cyst/spore wall, or cell wall of filamentous growth and hyphae; the extracellular digestion of substrates with osmotrophic absorption of nutrients; and other cell biosynthetic and metabolic pathways.
Giant kelps are a type of brown algae. Some brown algae have evolved specialized tissues that resemble terrestrial plants, with root-like holdfasts, stem-like stipes, and leaf-like blades that are capable of photosynthesis. The stipes of giant kelps are enormous, extending in some cases for 60 meters.
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Opisthokonta is a supergroup of eukaryotes that includes animals, fungi, and some protists. Learn about the evolution, diversity, and biology of opisthokonts from various chapters and articles on ScienceDirect Topics.
Dec 24, 2022 · The opisthokonts, or “fungi/metazoa group”, are a broad group of eukaryotes, including both the animal and fungus kingdoms, together with the eukaryotic microorganisms that are sometimes grouped in the paraphyletic phylum choanozoa (previously assigned to the protist “kingdom”). Both genetic and ultrastructural studies strongly support ...
Feb 28, 2021 · The opisthokonts include the animal-like choanoflagellates, which are believed to resemble the common ancestor of sponges and, in fact, all animals. Choanoflagellates include unicellular and colonial forms, and number about 244 described species.
Aug 24, 2022 · Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic changes that accompanied the origin of Metazoa and Fungi since the divergence of Opisthokonta with a dataset that includes four novel genomes from...
Sep 8, 2005 · Our results show that members of all opisthokont protist groups encode a ∼12-amino acid insertion in EF-1α, previously found exclusively in animals and fungi. Phylogenetic analyses of combined multigene data sets including a diverse set of opisthokont and nonopisthokont taxa place all of the proposed opisthokont protists unequivocally in an ...
