choanoflagellate
English edit
Etymology edit
From choano- + flagellate.
Noun edit
choanoflagellate (plural choanoflagellates)
- (biology) Any of a group of flagellate protozoa, of the class Choanoflagellatea, thought to be the closest unicellular ancestors of animals.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 30:
- Choanoflagellates are plankton: tiny protozoans that feed on even tinier bacteria.
- 2017 August 1, Douglas Fox, “Aliens in our midst”, in Aeon[1]:
- Detailed studies showed that the sponge and the cells of a protist called a choanoflagellate used a different set of genes and proteins to build similar-looking structures.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
any of a group of flagellate protozoa
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Further reading edit
- choanoflagellate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia