The Ichthyosporea (or DRIP clade, or Mesomycetozoea) are a small group of Opisthokonta in Eukaryota (formerly protists), mostly parasites of fish and other animals.
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The Ichthyosporea (or DRIP clade, or Mesomycetozoea) are a small group of Opisthokonta in Eukaryota (formerly protists), mostly parasites of fish and...
animals) and the protists Choanoflagellata, Filasterea, Pluriformea and Ichthyosporea. Along with fungi and some other groups, Holozoa is part of the Opisthokonta...
of Syssomonas multiformis and the Corallochytrea. Together with the Ichthyosporea they form the Holozoa. An up to date cladogram is The alternative hypotheses...
containing all holozoan protists in three classes: Choanoflagellatea, Ichthyosporea and Filasterea. Subphylum Paramycia, a monophyletic group containing...
that belongs to the Ichthyosporea clade, a group of protists closely related to animals. A. whisleri is a member of the Ichthyosporea clade, within the...
zygomycete fungi. Other groups now in Opisthokonta (e.g., Corallochytrium, Ichthyosporea) were also at given time classified as fungi. The genus Blastocystis...
class of Corallochytrea within Teretosporea and is a sister group to Ichthyosporea. Corallochytrium limacisporum is the only species of Corallochytrium...
heterotrophic, a number of choanoflagellate relatives, such as members of Ichthyosporea or Mesomycetozoa, follow a parasitic or pathogenic lifestyle. The life...
clade known as Opisthokonta. The opisthokont protists are Nucleariida, Ichthyosporea, Pluriformea, Filasterea, Choanoflagellata and the elusive Tunicaraptor...
Chromosphaera perkinsii is a species of Ichthyosporea from the order Dermocystida. Named after Professor Frank Perkins, it was isolated in shallow marine...
Manuel; Ubilla (2018). "Amphibian parasites of the Order Dermocystida (Ichthyosporea): current knowledge, taxonomic review and new records from Brazil"....
analyses place the family with the opisthokont group Mesomycetozoea (= Ichthyosporea). The family was originally called Amoebidiaceae, and considered the...
divergence: A molecular phylogenetic study of the protist trichomycetes (Ichthyosporea, Eccrinida)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 109: 447–464. doi:10...
developed in the common ancestor of the Pluriformea and Filozoa, after the Ichthyosporea diverged. The importance of the extracellular matrix has long been recognized...
collected from the Northeast Pacific. Creolimax is a member of the Ichthyosporea, which is the earliest branching holozoan lineage. Creolimax is one...
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