Capsaspora is a monotypic genus containing the single species Capsaspora owczarzaki. C. owczarzaki is a single-celled eukaryote that occupies a key phylogenetic position in our understanding of the origin of animal multicellularity, as one of the closest unicellular relatives to animals. It is, together with Ministeria vibrans, a member of the Filasterea clade (see “Taxonomy” below). This amoeboid protist has been pivotal to unravel the nature of the unicellular ancestor of animals, which has been proved to be much more complex than previously thought.[3][4][5]
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Capsaspora is a monotypic genus containing the single species Capsaspora owczarzaki. C. owczarzaki is a single-celled eukaryote that occupies a key phylogenetic...
clade of single-celled ameboid eukaryotes that includes Ministeria and Capsaspora. It is a sister clade to the Choanozoa in which the Choanoflagellatea...
Group Filasterea - recently erected to house the genera Ministeria and Capsaspora Group Choanoflagellatea - collared flagellates Kingdom Animalia - the...
of 6 amoeboid species belonging to the genera Ministeria, Pigoraptor, Capsaspora, and Txikispora, united by the structure of their thread-like pseudopods...
genera. The amoeba Capsaspora owczarzaki was previously described as well as a Nuclearia, until phylogenetic approaches placed Capsaspora outside Holomycota...
filopodial stage to an aggregative stage is also observed in another holozoan, Capsaspora owczarzaki. The formation of Syncytia also occurs in animals; the cytoplasm...
commonly found in fungi, but is also seen in Amoebozoa, Chlorophyta, Capsaspora, and Choanoflagellida. Many mycobacteria contain inteins within DnaB (bacterial...
Brazil, in the West Indies, and in Venezuela. A single-celled symbiont Capsaspora owczarzaki was discovered in the haemolymph of Biomphalaria glabrata in...
1 / EGN98368.1 203aa 30.3% mRNA shotgun sequence, no mRNA information Capsaspora owczarzaki a protist- no common name GG697244.1 / EFW44366.1 202aa 31...
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