In some older systems of classification, Zoomastigophora is a phylum (more commonly known as zooflagellates) within the kingdom Protista. Organisms within this group have a spherical, elongated body with a single central nucleus. They are single-celled, heterotrophic eukaryotes and may form symbiotic relationships with other organisms, including Trichomonas.[1] Some species are parasitic, causing diseases such as the African Sleeping Sickness, caused by the zooflagellate Trypanosoma brucei.[2] Zooflagellates have one or more flagella but do not have plastids or cell walls.[3]
A few are mutualistic, such as those that live in the guts of termites and aid the bacteria present in breaking down wood.[citation needed]
^Zoomastigophora at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
^"Definition: zooflagellate from "A Dictionary of Zoology"".
^Cavalier-Smith, T (1995). "Zooflagellate phylogeny and classification". Tsitologiia. 37 (11): 1010–29. PMID 8868448.
classification, Zoomastigophora is a phylum (more commonly known as zooflagellates) within the kingdom Protista. Organisms within this group have a spherical...
have a flagellate/heliozoan organization. Cavalier-Smith T. (1995). "Zooflagellate phylogeny and classification". Tsitologiya. 37 (11): 1010–29. PMID 8868448...
The apusomonads (family Apusomonadidae) are a group of protozoan zooflagellates that glide on surfaces, and mostly consume prokaryotes. They are of particular...
protists that prey on other microscopic life) are zooplankton, including zooflagellates, foraminiferans, radiolarians and some dinoflagellates. Other dinoflagellates...
food. Triatoma sanguisuga is a known vector for Trypanosoma cruzi, a zooflagellate protozoan that inhabits the blood and causes Chagas disease. An estimated...
protists that prey on other microscopic life) are zooplankton, including zooflagellates, foraminiferans, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates and marine microanimals...
microscopic. Many Protozoa are zooplankton, including dinoflagellates, zooflagellates, foraminiferans, and radiolarians. Some of these (such as dinoflagellates)...
move independently and feed by heterotrophy. Marine protozoans include zooflagellates, foraminiferans, radiolarians and some dinoflagellates. Radiolarian...
protists that prey on other microscopic life) are zooplankton, including zooflagellates, foraminiferans, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates and marine microanimals...
marine virus CroV infects and causes the death by lysis of the marine zooflagellate Cafeteria roenbergensis. This impacts coastal ecology because Cafeteria...
gliding soil-dwelling flagellates called Pediglissa. Glissomonads are zooflagellates that aren't strongly amoeboid, and are only covered by a plasma membrane...
Podomonas is a genus of apusomonads, a group of small zooflagellates that glide on their posterior cilium. The genus was identified in 2010 as an independent...
marine virus CroV infects and causes the death by lysis of the marine zooflagellate Cafeteria roenbergensis. This impacts coastal ecology because Cafeteria...
advantage. CroV infects Cafeteria roenbergensis, which is a marine zooflagellate. CroV is fatal to the host cell. This impacts coastal ecology because...
drawn across the heavens by a charioteer. Aurigamonas are unicellular zooflagellates with a spherical to ovoid shape (3–18 μm in diameter). Their most striking...
"Helkesimastix marina n. sp. (Cercozoa: Sainouroidea superfam. n.) a Gliding Zooflagellate of Novel Ultrastructure and Unusual Ciliary Behaviour". Protist. 160...
12.001. PMID 18403188. Cavalier-Smith, T.; Nikolaev, S. (2008). "The zooflagellates Stephanopogon and Percolomonas are a clade (class Percolatea: Phylum...
Opalozoa, which at the time contained a diverse assemblage of unrelated zooflagellates, opalines and proteomyxids. Eventually this phylum was discarded, and...
bahamiensis is not formally described.) Jakoba are small bacterivorous zooflagellates (jakobids) found in marine and hypersaline environments. They are free...
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