choanozoan

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Choanozoa +‎ -an

Noun[edit]

choanozoan (plural choanozoans)

  1. Any member of the Choanozoa, a phylum of protists.
    • 2015 June 27, Heike Betat et al., “The ancestor of modern Holozoa acquired the CCA-adding enzyme from Alphaproteobacteria by horizontal gene transfer”, in Nucleic Acids Research‎[1], volume 43, →DOI:
      It suggest that the imported aCCA gene replaced the ancestral eukaryotic eCCA gene, leading to a number of independent losses of the eCCA gene in the choanozoan groups.
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