Cryptic Cryptophytes-Revision of the Genus Goniomonas.

ABSTRACT: Cryptomonad protists are ubiquitously distributed over marine and freshwater habitats. As an exception to the colored cryptomonads, the heterotrophic cryptomonads of the genus Goniomonas have an ancestral phylogenetic position. They lack any kind of chloroplast and most likely represent a basal group to those cryptomonad groups having obtained their chloroplast by secondary endosymbiosis. Earlier studies have shown a deep divergence between freshwater and marine clades of goniomonads that comprise large genetic distances between members within the group and also between the two groups of marine and freshwater taxa. Still, marine and freshwater species carry the same genus name, and to date, only a few species have been described. We therefore restructured goniomonad systematics based not o

SUBMITTER: Sachs M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12432292 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature