Jakobid
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Jakobids are an order of free-living, heterotrophic, flagellar eukaryotes in the supergroup Excavata. They are small (less than 15 μm), and can be found in aerobic and anaerobic environments.[3][4][5] The order Jakobida, believed to be monophyletic, consists of only twenty species at present, and was classified as a group in 1993.[3][5][6] There is ongoing research into the mitochondrial genomes of jakobids, which are unusually large and bacteria-like, evidence that jakobids may be important to the evolutionary history of eukaryotes.[4][7]
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Four jakobid species, showing groove and flagella: Jakoba libera (ventral view), Stygiella incarcerata (ventral view), Reclinomonas americana (dorsal view), and Histiona aroides (ventral view) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diphoda |
Clade: | Discoba |
Class: | Jakobea Cavalier-Smith 1997[1] em. 2003[2] |
Order: | Jakobida Cavalier-Smith 1993 |
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Molecular phylogenetic evidence suggests strongly that jakobids are most closely related to Heterolobosea (Percolozoa) and Euglenozoa.[8]