Obazoa
eukaryotic clade comprising opisthokonts, Breviatea, and apousomonads / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Obazoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals that share an ancestor). It is a Unikont. Unikonts are one of the five superkingdoms in the classification of eukaryotes.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Amorphea |
Clade: | Obazoa Brown, 2013 |
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The Obazoa is made up of Breviatea, Apusomonadida and Opisthokonta. It does not include Amoebozoa, because that is a different clade. The connections between opisthokonts, breviates and apusomonads are not well known yet. Probably the Breviatea are the most basic of the three groups.[1][2][3] RNA phylogenies (evolution clues) do not give much evidence that Obazoa is a clade.[4] This could still mean Obazoa is from a very old ancestor, and there are not many clues left (because of its age).