Showing papers by "Takeshi Nakayama published in 2002"

TL;DR: The results indicated that the loss of photosynthetic ability occurred independently in P. danica and C. infusionum, the first report of the presence of a vestigial chloroplast (leucoplast) in colorless dictyochophytes.

TL;DR: A marine flagellate resembling Cafeteria roenbergensis in cell shape and behavior of the cell while attached to substratum was collected from the coast of Japan and suggested that it is not a bicosoecid, but a relative of the recently described stramenopile, Wobblia lunata.