Gyrista

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Gyrista
Gyristan representatives (clockwise from top-left):
diatoms, Develorapax
.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade:
TSAR
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Cavalier-Smith 1998[1]
Subgroups[2][3]
  • Bigyromonada
    • Developea
    • Pirsonea
  • Pseudofungi
    • Oomycetes
    • Hyphochytrea
  • Ochrophyta
    (=Heterokontophyta)
    • Chrysista
    • Diatomista

Gyrista is a phylum of

Ochrophyta, the parasitic Pseudofungi, and the recently described group of nanoflagellates known as Bigyromonada.[2] Members of this phylum are characterized by the presence of a helix or a double helix/ring system in the ciliary transition region.[1]

Systematics

Taxonomic history

Gyrista was first described in 1998 by

bicosoecids and labyrinthulomycetes, while the Ochrophyta, Pseudofungi and Bigyromonada remained as groups within Gyrista.[2]

Molecular phylogenetics

Gyrista was seen in 2017 as the sister group to phylum

Stramenopiles
Bigyra
Gyrista

Pseudofungi

Bigyromonada

Ochrophyta

Chrysista

Diatomista

A phylogenetic analysis in 2022 recovered a

Stramenopiles

Opalozoa

Sagenista

Gyrista
Bigyromonada

Developea

Pirsonea

Pseudofungi

Ochrophyta

Classification

The 2018 revised taxonomy of Gyrista is the following,[2] with the inclusion of new ochrophyte classes described in 2020[6] and 2021:[7]

  • Subphylum Bigyromonada Cavalier-Smith 1998
    • Class
      Developea
      Aleoshin et al. ex Cavalier-Smith 2017 [=Bigyromonadea Cavalier-Smith 1997]
    • Class
      Pirsonea Cavalier-Smith 2017[2]
  • Subphylum Pseudofungi Cavalier-Smith 1986 [=Heterokontimycotina M.W. Dick 1976]
    • Class
      Hyphochytrea
      Cavalier-Smith 1986 [=Hyphochytriomycota Whittaker 1969]
    • Class
      Oomycetes
      Winter in Rabenhorst 1879 [=Oomycota Arx 1967; Peronosporomycetes M.W. Dick 2001]
  • Subphylum
    Ochrophytina
    Cavalier-Smith 1995 [=Heterokontophyta van den Hoek et al. 1978; Stramenochromes Leipe et al. 1994]

Notes

  1. Olisthodiscophyceae which includes only the genus Olisthodiscus. The position of the genus Sulcochrysis remains uncertain due to a lack of DNA sequences.[7]

References