Opisthokont

Opisthokonta; Temporal range: 632–0 Ma Had'n Archean Proterozoic Pha.
	An animal sperm cell with a posterior flagellum attempts to penetrate an ovum
Scientific classification
(unranked):	Unikonta
(unranked):	Obazoa
(unranked):	Opisthokonta; Copeland 1956, emend. Cavalier-Smith 1987, emend. Adl et al., 2005
Subgroups
	Holomycota Nucleariae; Zoosporia; ; Holozoa Ichthyosporea; Pluriformea; Filozoa Filasteria; Choanozoa Choanoflagellata; Animalia; ; ; ;
Synonyms
	Choanozoa sensu Cavallier-Smith

Opisthokonts are a superkingdom of the Eukaryota, including the animals and fungi. It is a group of unikonts.

There are several classifications of the eukaryotes which are being discussed. Each of them divides the domain Eukaryota into five groups, but there is disagreement on the details.^[4]

The Opisthokonta is thought to be a monophyletic clade, and therefore superior to the Unikonta as a taxonomic term.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Opisthokonta

	Fonticulida 60 px

	Nucleariida 60 px

BCG 1

Zoosporia

Phytophagea

	Eumycota 60 px

	Aphelida File:Amoeboaphelidium.jpg

BCG 2

Ophistophagea

Rozellomycota File:Rozella allomycis2.jpg

	Namako-37

	Microsporidiomycota 60 px

Holozoa

Ichthyosporea 60 px

Pluriformea

	CorallochytriumFile:Corallochytrium limacisporum.png

	Syssomonas60 px

	Choanoflagellata 60 px

	Metazoa 60 px

Opisthokont Media

Amoeba_proteus_with_many_pseudopodia
Title: Algen I. (Schizophyceen, Flagellaten, Peridineen)Identifier: algenischizophyc00lemm (find matches)Year: 1910 (1910s)Authors:
Nuclearia_sp_Nikko_(cropped)
Linear_arrangement_of_ascospores_in_the_asci_of_the_fungus_Sordaria_macrospora_Cropped
Rozella allomycis parasitizing the chytrid Allomyces
Corallochytrium limacisporum

References

↑ Parfrey, Laura Wegener; Lahr, Daniel J. G.; Knoll, Andrew H.; Katz, Laura A. (August 16, 2011). "Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108 (33): 13624–13629. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10813624P. doi:10.1073/pnas.1110633108. PMC 3158185. PMID 21810989.
↑ Copeland, H. F. (1956). The Classification of Lower Organisms. Palo Alto: Pacific Books.
↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
↑ Adl S.M. et al 2005. The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 52 (5): 399–451. [1] PMID 16248873
↑ Huang, Jinling, Ying Xu, and Johann Peter Gogarten. The presence of a haloarchaeal type tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase marks the opisthokonts as monophyletic. Molecular biology and evolution 22.11 (2005): 2142-2146.
↑ Steenkamp, Emma T; Jane Wright, and Sandra L. Baldauf. The protistan origins of animals and fungi. Molecular biology and Evolution 23.1 (2006): 93-106.
↑ Torruella, Guifré, et al. Phylogenetic relationships within the Opisthokonta based on phylogenomic analyses of conserved single-copy protein domains. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29.2 (2012): 531-544.

[Parfrey2011-1] Parfrey, Laura Wegener; Lahr, Daniel J. G.; Knoll, Andrew H.; Katz, Laura A. (August 16, 2011). "Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108 (33): 13624–13629. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10813624P. doi:10.1073/pnas.1110633108. PMC 3158185. PMID 21810989.

[2] Copeland, H. F. (1956). The Classification of Lower Organisms. Palo Alto: Pacific Books.

[3] Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).

[4] Adl S.M. et al 2005. The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 52 (5): 399–451. [1] PMID 16248873

[5] Huang, Jinling, Ying Xu, and Johann Peter Gogarten. The presence of a haloarchaeal type tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase marks the opisthokonts as monophyletic. Molecular biology and evolution 22.11 (2005): 2142-2146.

[6] Steenkamp, Emma T; Jane Wright, and Sandra L. Baldauf. The protistan origins of animals and fungi. Molecular biology and Evolution 23.1 (2006): 93-106.

[7] Torruella, Guifré, et al. Phylogenetic relationships within the Opisthokonta based on phylogenomic analyses of conserved single-copy protein domains. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29.2 (2012): 531-544.

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