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David Joseph Patterson is a Northern Irish taxonomist specializing in protozoa and the use of taxonomy in biodiversity informatics.
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David Joseph Patterson is a Northern Irish taxonomist specializing in protozoa and the use of taxonomy in biodiversity informatics.
David Joseph Patterson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 19 April 1950 to Doris Mary (née Bell) and Samuel Patterson, with one elder brother (mathematician Samuel James) and a sister (Frances Mary). Father of Alice Mia Vørs Patterson, Daniel Kieran Patterson, and William Zhao Patterson. He was educated at Belmont Primary, Strandtown and Grosvenor High schools in Belfast. He obtained his Bachelor of Science with first-class honours at Queen's University Belfast in 1971.
David Patterson obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Bristol in 1976, where he was later employed (1977–1993). He obtained his Doctor of Science in 1990 from Queen's University, Belfast. In 1993 he moved to the University of Sydney in Australia where he became Head of the School of Biological Sciences. In 2004, he moved to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole (Mass., USA) where he helped to establish the Encyclopedia of Life project with responsibility for the informatics component, [1] basing EOL on the model developed with the micro*scope project. [2] [3] From 2012-2014 he was a Research Professor at Arizona State University; and also was Professor (MBL) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. As a taxonomist, his primary interests were in the diversity of protozoa and the evolution of protists. He and his co-workers described about 250 new taxa. David Patterson was awarded the Thomas Henry Huxley prize and the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London; has been Secretary of the British Section of the Society of Protozoologists; President of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology; and Vice-President of the (International) Society of Protozoology. He served as a member of the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, of the Editorial Committee for Algae of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and of the Scientific Committee of the World Data System.
He has published approximately 200 peer-reviewed papers including several books throughout his career. Initial interests in ion physiology, volume regulation, and contractile vacuoles shifted to ultrastructural studies, a technique that reshaped the understanding of protist diversity, in turn being further enriched through comparative molecular studies. With Guy Brugerolle, he introduced his concept that clades of protists could usefully be identified by the complement and arrangement of organelles - that is their ultrastructural identity. [4] He later used this concept along with the rationale of transformed cladistics to redefine the diversity of clades among eukaryotes. [5] This simplified the challenge of establishing a complete phylogeny for eukaryotes by providing a list of the clades among which relatedness was to be established.
In the mid-1980's, Patterson focussed his efforts on free-living heterotrophic flagellates because they were poorly known and were not being actively investigated. Two areas of research were impeded because of the lack of awareness of flagellate diversity. The first was with the emerging concept of Microbial Food Webs that was transforming appreciation of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems - itself critical to the international Joint Global Ocean Flux Study targeting a better understanding of carbon fluxes and global warming. Secondly, as the most primitive eukaryotes bore flagella, an understanding of the variety of flagellate diversity was expected to create better insights into eukaryotic origins and evolution. With co-workers, this led to recognition of new domains of protistan diversity - such as stramenopiles, alveolates, and the excavates (excavata) - robustly defined by reference to amorphies, then a rarity in protistology.
Patterson explored the emerging and largely theoretical concept that most microbes should have a universal distribution, initially articulated by Lourens Baas Becking, and refreshed by Tom Fenchel and Bland Finlay. Applying standardized sampling, documentation, and reporting protocols, to communities in marine, freshwater, and extreme sites, in Pacific and Atlantic locations, northern and southern hemispheres, in coastal habitats and deep ocean sediments (etc.), he and co-workers refuted the hypothesis that the taxonomic composition of communities of free-living flagellates were determined by geographic factors. [6] [7] This insight eliminated the need for local catalogues and expertise, accelerating taxonomic, phylogenetic, and ecological studies involving flagellates.
Latterly, his interests shifted to embedding taxonomic expertise in tools that manage biodiversity information. He led the implementation team of the Encyclopedia of Life project, was subsequently appointed Senior Taxononomist to the project, and as adviser to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, [8] a coPI of the Data Conservancy and of the NSF-funded Global Names project, and member of the Plazi team. [9] He was a prime mover of the Global Names Architecture project.
Taxa named after him include Pattersoniella vitiphila, Foissner, 1987; Protoopalina pattersonii Delvinquier, 1995; Nuclearia pattersonii, Nerad, Silberman, et al., 2008; Pseudovorticella pattersoni, Sun, Ji, Warren and Song 2009 and Stephanopogon pattersoni Lee Miller and Simpson, 2014.
Following retirement from the academic world, he has written STEM (Science Technology, Engineering, Math) storytime readers for parents who seek to promote thoughtfulness in 5-9 year old children.
| Actinophrys salsuginosa Mikrjukov & Patterson, 2001 | Dingensia angusta Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 | Notosolenus hamelini Al Qassab, Lee, Murray & Patterson, 2002 | Ploeotia adhaerens Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Actinophrys tauryanini Mikrjukov & Patterson, 2001 | Diplonema ambulator Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Notosolenus hemicircularis Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Ploeotia amygdala Lee, Brandt, Vørs & Patterson, 2003 |
| Adriamonas Verhagen, Zölffel, Brugerolle, & Patterson, 1994 | Diplonema metabolicum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Notosolenus lashue Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Ploeotia azurina Patterson & Simpson, 1996 |
| Adriamonas peritocrescens Verhagen, Zölffel, Brugerolle, & Patterson, 1994 | Dolium Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Notosolenus mediocanellatus Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 | Ploeotia corrugata Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Amphidiniopsis korewalensis Murray & Patterson , 2002 | Dolium sedentarium Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Notosolenus navicula Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Ploeotia decipiens Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Amphidinium boggayum Murray & Patterson, 2002 | Eufolliculina uhligi Mulisch & Patterson, 1983 | Notosolenus ostium Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Ploeotia discoides Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Amphidinium corrugatum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Eumycetes Patterson, 1994 | Notosolenus pyriforme Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Ploeotia heracleum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Amphidinium mootonorum Murray & Patterson, 2002 | Fromentella Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 | Notosolenus scutulum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Ploeotia laminae Al Qassab, Lee, Murray & Patterson, 2002 |
| Amphidinium yuroogurrum Murray & Patterson, 2002 | Fromentella granulosa Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 | Notosolenus steini Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 | Ploeotia longifilum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Ancyromonas melba Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | Glissandra Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | Notosolenus tamanduensis Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Ploeotia obliqua Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 |
| Ancyromonas sinistrae Al Qassab, Lee, Murray & Patterson, 2002 | Glissandra innuerende Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | Notosolenus triangularis Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Ploeotia oblonga Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Anehmia Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996 | Goniomonas amphinema Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Notosolenus urceolatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Ploeotia plumosa Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996 |
| Anehmia exotica Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996 | Goniomonas pacifica Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Nuclearia flavescens Patterson, 1984 | Ploeotia pseudanisonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Anisonema glaciale Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Gyrodinium oblongum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Nuclearia flavocapsulata Patterson, 1984 | Ploeotia punctata Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Apusomonas australiensis Ekelund & Patterson, 1997 | Heteronema exaratum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Nuclearia leuckarti Patterson, 1984 | Ploeotia robusta Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Astasia skvortzovi Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 | Heteronema larseni Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Nuclearia radians Patterson, 1984 | Ploeotia scrobiculata Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Axodines Patterson, 1994 | Heteronema pterbica Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 | Nuclearia ruber Patterson, 1984 | Ploeotia tasmanica Lee, Simpson & Patterson, 2005 |
| Barthelona Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 | Heteronema splendens Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Palustrimonas yorkeensis Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | Ploeotia tenuis Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Barthelona vulgaris Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 | Heteronema vittatum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Peranema dolichonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Protaspis gemmifera Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Bodo cephaloporus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Jakoba Patterson, 1990 | Peranema dolichonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Protaspis obliqua Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Bodo cygnus Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | Jakoba incarcerata Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 | Peranema macrostoma Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996 | Protaspis tegere Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Bodo platyrhynchus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Jakoba libera Patterson, 1990 | Percolomonas Fenchel & Patterson, 1986 | Protaspis verrucosa Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Bodo saliens Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Jenningsia curvicauda Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas cosmopolitus Fenchel & Patterson, 1986 | Pseudoperanema dolichonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Bordnamonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Jenningsia deflexum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas cuspidata Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Pseudophyllomitus apiculatus Lee, 2002 |
| Bordnamonas tropicana Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Jenningsia furcatum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas descissus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Pseudophyllomitus granulatus Lee, 2002 |
| Cabra Murray & Patterson, 2004 | Jenningsia fusiforme Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas elephas Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Pseudophyllomitus vesiculosis Lee, 2002 |
| Cabra matta Murray & Patterson, 2004 | Jenningsia glabrum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas membranifera Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Pteridomonas danica Patterson & Fenchel, 1985 |
| Caecitellus Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993 | Jenningsia granuliferum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas pyriformis Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Quasibodo Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 |
| Caecitellus parvulus Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993 | Jenningsia kupfferi Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas salinus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Quasibodo laughtoni Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 |
| Cafeteria Fenchel & Patterson, 1988 | Jenningsia limax Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas similis Lee, Brandt, Vørs & Patterson, 2003 | Ramicristates Patterson, 1994 |
| Cafeteria ligulifera Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Jenningsia macer Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas spinosus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Rhabdomonas mirabilis Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 |
| Cafeteria minuta Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Jenningsia macrostomum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Percolomonas sulcatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Rhinodinium Murray, Hoppenrath, Preisfeld, Larsen, Yoshimatsu, Topriumi, & Patterson, 2006 |
| Cafeteria roenbergensis Fenchel & Patterson, 1988 | Jenningsia nigrum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Petalomonas boadicea Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Rhinodinium broomeensis Murray, Hoppenrath, Preisfeld, Larsen, Yoshimatsu, Topriumi, & Patterson, 2006 |
| Carpediemonas Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996 | Jenningsia sacculus Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999 | Petalomonas calycimonoides Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Rhizomonas setigera Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993 |
| Carpediemonas bialata Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Kamera Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 | Petalomonas christeni Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Rhynchobodo simius Patterson & Simpson, 1996 |
| Carpediemonas membranifera Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996 | Kamera lens Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 | Petalomonas compressa Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 | Sciviamonas Ekelund, Patterson & Vørs in Ekelund & Patterson, 1997 |
| Centroheliozoa Patterson, 1994 | Kiitoksia kaloista Tong, Vørs & Patterson, 1997 | Petalomonas intortus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Sciviamonas terricola Ekelund, Patterson & Vørs in Ekelund & Patterson, 1997 |
| Cercomonas granulatus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Macappella Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 | Petalomonas iugosus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Slabyrinthulids Patterson, 1994 |
| Chlamydaster fimbriatus Dürrschmidt & Patterson, 1987 | Massisteria Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas labrum Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Slanimals Patterson 1985 |
| Ciliophrys azurina Mikrjukov & Patterson, 2001 | Massisteria marina Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas marginalis Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Sloomycetes Patterson, 1985 |
| Clautriavia cavus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Mastigamoeba psammobia Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas minor Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Slopalinida Patterson, 1985 |
| Colpodella turpis Simpson & Patterson, 1996 | Mastigamoeba punctachora Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 | Petalomonas physaloides Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Sphenomonas alburiae Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 |
| Colpodella unguis Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | Mastigamoeba schizophrenia Simpson, Bernard, Fenchel & Patterson, 1997 | Petalomonas planus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Stramenochromes Patterson, 1989 |
| Cristamonadida Brugerolle & Patterson | Metafolliculina ballerina Mulisch, Harry, Patterson & Wyatt, 1986 | Petalomonas poosilla Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Stramenopiles Patterson, 1994 |
| Cryptaulax elegans Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Metopion Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas quinquecarinata Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Tetradimorpha pterbica Mikrjukov & Patterson, in Mikrjukov, 2000 |
| Dinema dimorphum Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003 | Metopion fluens Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas raiula Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Thecamonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Dinema inaequale Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Metromonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas spinifera Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Thecamonas filosa Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Dinema litorale Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Metromonas grandis Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas virgatus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Thecamonas mutabilis Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Dinema maculata Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Metromonas simplex Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Petalomonas virgatus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Thecamonas trahens Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Dinema platysomum Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Ministeria Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993 | Phyllomitus granulatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Toshiba Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 |
| Dinema validum Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Ministeria marisola Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993 | Phyllomitus vesiculosus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Toshiba vorax Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 |
| Dinematomonas inaequale Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Monotrichomonas Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 | Platychilomonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Trimastix inaequalis Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 |
| Dinematomonas litorale Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Monotrichomonas carabina Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000 | Platychilomonas psammobia Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Urceolus cornutus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Dinematomonas maculata Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Notosolenus adamus Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Plaustrimonas Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | Urceolus costatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
| Dinematomonas valida Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Notosolenus alatellus Larsen & Patterson, 1990 | Pleurostomum turgidum Patterson & Simpson, 1996 | |
| Dingensia Patterson & Zölffel, 1991 | Notosolenus brothernis Lee & Patterson, 2000 | Ploeotia adhaerens Larsen & Patterson, 1990 |
A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella. The word flagellate also describes a particular construction characteristic of many prokaryotes and eukaryotes and their means of motion. The term presently does not imply any specific relationship or classification of the organisms that possess flagella. However, the term "flagellate" is included in other terms which are more formally characterized.
The Stramenopiles, also called Heterokonts, are a clade of organisms distinguished by the presence of stiff tripartite external hairs. In most species, the hairs are attached to flagella, in some they are attached to other areas of the cellular surface, and in some they have been secondarily lost. Stramenopiles represent one of the three major clades in the SAR supergroup, along with Alveolata and Rhizaria.
The axodines are a group of unicellular stramenopiles that includes silicoflagellate and rhizochromulinid algae, actinomonad heterotrophic flagellates and actinophryid heliozoa. Alternative classifications treat the dictyochophytes as heterokont algae, or as Chrysophyceae. Other overlapping taxonomic concepts include the Actinochrysophyceae, Actinochrysea or Dictyochophyceae sensu lato. The grouping was proposed on the basis of ultrastructural similarities, and is consistent with subsequent molecular comparisons.
Excavata is an extensive and diverse but possibly paraphyletic group of unicellular Eukaryota. The group was first suggested by Simpson and Patterson in 1999 and the name latinized and assigned a rank by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 2002. It contains a variety of free-living and symbiotic protists, and includes some important parasites of humans such as Giardia and Trichomonas. Excavates were formerly considered to be included in the now obsolete Protista kingdom. They were distinguished from other lineages based on electron-microscopic information about how the cells are arranged. They are considered to be a basal flagellate lineage.
Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow, was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford.
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, occurring mostly as symbiotes or parasites of animals, as is the case with Giardia lamblia which causes diarrhea in mammals.
Pelomyxa is a genus of giant flagellar amoebae, usually 500-800 μm but occasionally up to 5 mm in length, found in anaerobic or microaerobic bottom sediments of stagnant freshwater ponds or slow-moving streams.
The Apusozoa are a paraphyletic phylum of flagellate eukaryotes. They are usually around 5–20 μm in size, and occur in soils and aquatic habitats, where they feed on bacteria. They are grouped together based on the presence of an organic shell or theca under the dorsal surface of the cell.
Stephanopogon is a genus of flagellated marine protist that superficially resembles a ciliate.
Telonemia is a phylum of microscopic eukaryote, single-celled organisms. They were formerly classified within kingdom Chromista. They are suggested to have evolutionary significance in being a possible transitional form between ecologically important heterotrophic and photosynthetic species among chromalveolates.
Protistology is a scientific discipline devoted to the study of protists, a highly diverse group of eukaryotic organisms. All eukaryotes apart from animals, plants and fungi are considered protists. Its field of study therefore overlaps with the more traditional disciplines of phycology, mycology, and protozoology, just as protists embrace mostly unicellular organisms described as algae, some organisms regarded previously as primitive fungi, and protozoa.
A protist or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. Protists do not form a natural group, or clade, but an artificial grouping of several independent clades that evolved from the last eukaryotic common ancestor.
Protozoa are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris. Historically, protozoans were regarded as "one-celled animals", because they often possess animal-like behaviours, such as motility and predation, and lack a cell wall, as found in plants and many algae.
Thaumatomonadida is an order of flagellates.
Bigyra is a phylum of microscopic eukaryotes that are found at the base of the Stramenopiles clade. It includes three well-known heterotrophic groups Bicosoecida, Opalinata and Labyrinthulomycetes, as well as several small clades initially discovered through environmental DNA samples: Nanomonadea, Placididea, Opalomonadea and Eogyrea. The classification of Bigyra has changed several times since its origin, and its monophyly remains unresolved.
Proleptomonas is a genus of coprophilic protists, containing the single species Proleptomonas faecicola. It belongs to the phylum Cercozoa, although it was previously considered the only free-living kinetoplastid. It is the only member of family Proleptomonadidae.
Vitrella brassicaformis (CCMP3155) is a unicellular alga belonging to the eukaryotic supergroup Alveolata. V. brassicaformis and its closest known relative, Chromera velia, are the only two currently described members of the phylum Chromerida, which in turn constitutes part of the taxonomically unranked group Colpodellida. Chromerida is phylogenetically closely related to the phylum Apicomplexa, which includes Plasmodium, the agent of malaria. Notably, both V. brassicaformis and C. velia are photosynthetic, each containing a complex secondary plastid. This characteristic defined the discovery of these so-called 'chromerids,' as their photosynthetic capacity positioned them to shed light upon the evolution of Apicomplexa's non-photosynthetic parasitism. Both genera lack chlorophyll b or c; these absences link the two taxonomically, as algae bearing only chlorophyll a are rare amid the biodiversity of life. Despite their similarities, V. brassicaformis differs significantly from C. velia in morphology, lifecycle, and accessory photosynthetic pigmentation. V. brassicaformis has a green color, with a complex lifecycle involving multiple pathways and a range of sizes and morphologies, while Chromera has a brown color and cycles through a simpler process from generation to generation. The color differences are due to differences in accessory pigments.
Kiitoksia is a genus of aquatic protist. The taxonomic position of the genus is still uncertain and it has not found a robust location in any subgroup.
Varisulca was a proposed basal Podiate taxon. It encompassed several lineages of heterotrophic protists, most notably the ancyromonads (planomonads), collodictyonids (diphylleids), rigifilids and mantamonadids. Recent evidence suggests that the latter three are closely related to each other, forming a clade called CRuMs, but that this is unlikely to be specifically related to ancyromonads
Ultrastructural identity is a concept in biology. It asserts that evolutionary lineages of eukaryotes in general and protists in particular can be distinguished by complements and arrangements of cellular organelles. These ultrastructural components can be visualized by electron microscopy.
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