Biology:Ventrata

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Short description: Taxon of ciliates with

Ventrata
Paramecium caudatum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Subphylum: Intramacronucleata
Infraphylum: Ventrata
Cavalier-Smith 2004
Classes[1]

Ventrata is an infraphylum of ciliates inside the subphylum Intramacronucleata that unites the classes Phyllopharyngea, Colpodea, Nassophorea, Prostomatea, Plagiopylea and Oligohymenophorea.[1] It is equivalent to the clade CONthreeP or Conthreep recovered by phylogenetic analyses.[2]

Description

Members of this taxon are characterized by having, ancestrally, a ventral cytopharynx,[1] as the name suggests.

Phylogeny

The monophyly of CONthreeP is well supported, being placed as sister to Protocruziea.[2] The order Discotrichida, belonging to class Nassophorea, has been recovered as the earliest branch of the clade.[2]

 
 

Protocruziea

 
Ventrata
 

Discotrichida (Nassophorea)

 
 
 

Colpodea

 
 
 
 

Nassophorea

 
 

Phyllopharyngea

 
 
 
 

Oligohymenophorea

 
 
 

Prostomatea

 
 

Plagiopylea

 
 
 
 
 
CONthreeP
 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (2004). "Chromalveolate Diversity and Cell Megaevolution: Interplay of Membranes, Genomes and Cytoskeleton". Organelles, Genomes and Eukaryote Phylogeny: An Evolutionary Synthesis in the Age of Genomics. Systematics Association Special Volumes Series. 68 (1st ed.). CRC Press. pp. 75-108. doi:10.1201/9780203508930. ISBN 0415299047. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gao, Feng; Warren, Alan; Zhang, Qianqian; Gong, Jun; Miao, Miao; Sun, Ping; Xu, Dapeng; Huang, Jie et al. (2016-04-29). "The All-Data-Based Evolutionary Hypothesis of Ciliated Protists with a Revised Classification of the Phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata)" (in en). Scientific Reports 6: 24874. doi:10.1038/srep24874. ISSN 2045-2322. PMID 27126745. Bibcode: 2016NatSR...624874G. 

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