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Metamonad
"Giardia lamblia", a parasitic diplomonad
Giardia lamblia, a parasitic diplomonad
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Excavata
Phylum: Metamonada
Grassé 1952 emend. Cavalier-Smith 2003
Subdivisions[1][2][3]
Synonyms
  • Archezoa?[4]
  • Centrosomea Chatton Villeneuve 1937
  • Metamonadina Grassé 1952
  • Polymastigota Butschli 1884
  • Tetramastigota Hulsmann & Hausmann 1994

The metamonads are a large group of flagellate amitochondriate microscopic eukaryotes. Their composition is not entirely settled, but they include the retortamonads, diplomonads, and possibly the parabasalids and oxymonads as well. These four groups are all anaerobic (many being aerotolerant anaerobes), occurring mostly as symbiotes or parasites of animals, as is the case with Giardia lamblia which causes diarrhea in mammals.[4]

Characteristics

A number of parabasalids and oxymonads are found in termite guts, and play an important role in breaking down the cellulose found in wood. Some other metamonads are parasites.

These flagellates are unusual in lacking mitochondria. Originally they were considered among the most primitive eukaryotes, diverging from the others before mitochondria appeared. However, they are now known to have lost mitochondria secondarily, and retain both organelles and nuclear genes derived from them. Mitochondrial relics include hydrogenosomes, which produce hydrogen, and small structures called mitosomes.

It now appears the Metamonada are, together with Malawimonas, sister clades of the Podiata.[5]

All of these groups are united by having flagella or basal bodies in characteristic groups of four, which are often associated with the nucleus, forming a structure called a karyomastigont. In addition, the genera Carpediemonas and Trimastix are now known to be close relatives of the retortamonad-diplomonad line and the oxymonads, respectively. Both are free-living and amitochondriate.

Classification

The metamonads were thought to make up part of the Excavata, a paraphyletic eukaryotic supergroup including flagellates with feeding grooves and their close relatives. Their relationships are uncertain,[6] and they do not always appear together on molecular trees. It is possible that the metamonads as defined here do not form a monophyletic subgroup.

The following higher level treatment from 2013 is based on works of Cavalier-Smith[7] with amendments within Fornicata from Yubukia, Simpson & Leander.[8]

Metamonada were once again proposed to be basal eukaryotes in 2018.[9]

Evolution

Within Metamonada, two main branches are recovered in phylogenetic analyses. One branch contains the Parabasalia and the closely related anaeramoebae. The other branch contains two large groups: the Fornicata, which is closely related to barthelonids[1] and the recently isolated Skoliomonas;[3] and the Preaxostyla.[2]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Yazaki et al. 2020.
  2. ^ a b Stairs et al. 2021.
  3. ^ a b Eglit et al. 2024.
  4. ^ a b Al Jewari, Caesar; Baldauf, Sandra L. (2023-04-28). "An excavate root for the eukaryote tree of life". Science Advances. 9 (17): eade4973. Bibcode:2023SciA....9E4973A. doi:10.1126/sciadv.ade4973. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 10146883. PMID 37115919.
  5. ^ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Chao, Ema E.; Lewis, Rhodri (2016-06-01). "187-gene phylogeny of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa reveals a new class (Cutosea) of deep-branching, ultrastructurally unique, enveloped marine Lobosa and clarifies amoeba evolution". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 275–296. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.023. PMID 27001604.
  6. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (November 2003). "The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53 (Pt 6): 1741–58. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0. PMID 14657102.
  7. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (2013). "Early evolution of eukaryote feeding modes, cell structural diversity, and classification of the protozoan phyla Loukozoa, Sulcozoa, and Choanozoa". Eur. J. Protistol. 49 (2): 115–178. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.06.001. PMID 23085100.
  8. ^ Yubukia; Simpson; Leander (2013). "Comprehensive Ultrastructure of Kipferlia bialata Provides Evidence for Character Evolution within the Fornicata (Excavata)". Protist. 164 (3): 423–439. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2013.02.002. PMID 23517666.
  9. ^ Krishnan, Arunkumar; Burroughs, A. Max; Iyer, Lakshminarayan; Aravind, L. (2018-07-04). "The unexpected provenance of components in eukaryotic nucleotide-excision-repair and kinetoplast DNA-dynamics from bacterial mobile elements". bioRxiv: 361121. doi:10.1101/361121.
  10. ^ Zhang, Qianqian; Táborský, Petr; Silberman, Jeffrey D.; Pánek, Tomáš; Čepička, Ivan; Simpson, Alastair G.B. (2015). "Marine Isolates of Trimastix marina Form a Plesiomorphic Deep-branching Lineage within Preaxostyla, Separate from Other Known Trimastigids (Paratrimastix n. gen.)". Protist. 166 (4): 468–491. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2015.07.003. PMID 26312987.
  11. ^ Radek, Renate; Platt, Katja; Öztas, Deniz; Šobotník, Jan; Sillam-Dussès, David; Hanus, Robert; Brune, Andreas (26 January 2023). "New insights into the coevolutionary history of termites and their gut flagellates: Description of Retractinympha glossotermitis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Retractinymphidae fam. nov.)". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1111484.
  12. ^ a b c Céza, Vít; Kotyk, Michael; Kubánková, Aneta; Yubuki, Naoji; Šťáhlavský, František; Silberman, Jeffrey D.; Čepička, Ivan (August 2022). "Free-living Trichomonads are Unexpectedly Diverse". Protist. 173 (4): 125883. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2022.125883. PMID 35660751. S2CID 248586911.
  13. ^ Cepicka, Ivan; Hampl, Vladimír; Kulda, Jaroslav (July 2010). "Critical Taxonomic Revision of Parabasalids with Description of one New Genus and three New Species". Protist. 161 (3): 400–433. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2009.11.005. PMID 20093080.

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