Molecular phylogeny of diplomonads and enteromonads based on SSU rRNA, alpha-tubulin and HSP90 genes: Implications for the evolutionary history of the double karyomastigont of diplomonads

Abstract

Our result suggests either that the diplokaryotic condition characteristic of diplomonads arose several times independently, or that the monokaryotic cell of enteromonads originated several times independently by secondary reduction from the diplokaryoti

Keywords

• giardia-lamblia
• eukaryote evolution
• maximum-likelihood
• protein evolution
• ultrastructure
• carpediemonas
• intestinalis
• protists
• genome
• tree