Akinori Yabuki

TL;DR: The classically mainly reticulose Proteomyxidea to Endomyxa is transferred, removing evident filosans as new class Granofilosea (including Desmothoracida, Acinetactis and new heliomonad family Heliomorphidae (new genus Heliomorpha (=Dimorpha)).

TL;DR: CRuMs and ancyromonads represent two distinct major groups that branch deeply on the lineage that includes animals, near the most commonly inferred root of the eukaryote tree, which makes both groups crucial in examinations of the deepest-level history of extant eucaryotes.

TL;DR: A large-scale comparative transcriptomic study of MROs across a major eukaryotic group, Metamonada, examining lineage-specific gain and loss of metabolic functions in the Mros of Trichomonas, Giardia, Spironucleus and their free-living relatives uncovers a complex history of ATP production machinery in diplomonads such as GiardIA, and their closest relative, Dysnectes.

TL;DR: The taxonomic assignment of P. bilix, and character evolution in Cryptista is discussed, which was found to be basal to a clade of cryptophytes, goniomonads and kathablepharids collectively known as Cryptista, which is proposed to be a part of the larger taxonomic assemblage Hacrobia.

TL;DR: It is proposed that Lepidodiniumplastids are of core chlorophyte origin, and 85 sequences newly determined in this study and recent progress in plastid genome sequencing enabled us to prepare an alignment comprised of 11Plastid proteins from green algal taxa that appropriately cover the diversity of Chlorophyta.