Pyramimonas
Appearance
Pyramimonas | |
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Pyramimonas tetrarhynchus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Order: | Pyramimonadales |
Family: | Pyramimonadaceae |
Genus: | Pyramimonas Schmarda 1849 |
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Pyramimonas is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales.[1] Phototropic euglenids inherited their plastids from a close relative of Pyramimonas which was an endosymbiont inside phagotrophic eukaryovorous euglenids.[2]
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References
[edit]- ^ "Pyramimonas". NCBI. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ Zakryś, B; Milanowski, R; Karnkowska, Anna (2017). "Evolutionary Origin of Euglena". Adv Exp Med Biol. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 979: 3–17. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54910-1_1. ISBN 978-3-319-54908-8. PMID 28429314.