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Amoebozoa is a major taxonomic group containing about 2,400 described species of amoeboid protists, often possessing blunt, fingerlike, lobose pseudopods and tubular mitochondrial cristae. In traditional classification schemes, Amoebozoa is usually ranked as a phylum within either the kingdom Protista or the kingdom Protozoa. In the classification favored by the International Society of Protistologists, it is retained as an unranked "supergroup" within Eukaryota. Molecular genetic analysis supports Amoebozoa as a monophyletic clade. Modern studies of eukaryotic phylogenetic trees identify it as the sister group to Opisthokonta, another major clade which contains both fungi and animals as well as several other clades comprising some 300 species of unicellular eukaryotes. Amoebozoa and Opisthokonta are sometimes grouped together in a high-level taxon, named Amorphea.
Amoebozoa includes many of the best-known amoeboid organisms, such as Chaos, Entamoeba, Pelomyxa and the genus Amoeba itself. Species of Amoebozoa may be either shelled (testate) or naked, and cells may possess flagella. Free-living species are common in both salt and freshwater as well as soil, moss and leaf litter. Some live as parasites or symbionts of other organisms, and some are known to cause disease in humans and other organisms.
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A Geothermal Amoeba Sets A New Upper Temperature Limit For Eukaryotes - astrobiology.com
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New insights on the evolutionary relationships between the major lineages of Amoebozoa - Nature
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Variation of natural selection in the Amoebozoa reveals heterogeneity across the phylogeny and adaptive evolution in diverse lineages - Frontiers
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Superficially described and ignored for 92 years, rediscovered and emended: Apodera angatakere (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) is a new flagship testate amoeba taxon from Aotearoa (New Zealand) - Duckert - 2021 - Journal of Eukaryotic Mi - Wiley Online Library
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Did Terrestrial Diversification of Amoebas (Amoebozoa) Occur in Synchrony with Land Plants? - PLOS
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Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expected - EurekAlert!
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The draft genome of Cochliopodium minus reveals a complete meiosis toolkit and provides insight into the evolution of sexual mechanisms in Amoebozoa - Nature
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Cancer exploits a late premetazoan gene module conserved in the human genome - ScienceDirect.com
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MSU’s Brown garners $1.1 million NSF grant to better understand ‘tree of life’ - Mississippi State University
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Comprehensive comparative genomics reveals over 50 phyla of free-living and pathogenic bacteria are associated with diverse members of the amoebozoa - Nature
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Eukaryotic Evolution: Getting to the Root of the Problem - ScienceDirect.com
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100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold - EurekAlert!
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Coronamoeba villafranca gen. nov. sp. nov. (Amoebozoa, Dermamoebida) challenges the correlation of morphology and phylogeny in Amoebozoa - Nature
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Evolution: Revisiting the Root of the Eukaryote Tree - ScienceDirect.com
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Fractional 2′-O-methylation in the ribosomal RNA of Dictyostelium discoideum supports ribosome heterogeneity in Amoebozoa - Nature
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Marine amoebae with cytoplasmic and perinuclear symbionts deeply branching in the Gammaproteobacteria - Nature
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Morphological stasis in the first myxomycete from the Mesozoic, and the likely role of cryptobiosis | Scientific Reports - Nature
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Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils - Nature
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Delayed cytokinesis generates multinuclearity and potential advantages in the amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii Neff strain - Nature
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Novel Endosymbionts in Rhizarian Amoebae Imply Universal Infection of Unrelated Free-Living Amoebae by Legionellales - Frontiers
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'The Blob': This mysterious 'smart' slime can solve puzzles and make decisions - CNBC
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