Editing Archezoa (section)

== Long branch attraction ==
An argument for the Archezoa group was that amitochondriate protists appeared to branch off early on from the eukaryotic lineage in phylogenetic analyses. This corroborated the supposition that Archezoa were more closely linked to primitive eukaryotes that evolved prior to the endosymbiotic process that generated the mitochondria.<ref name=Cavalier-Smith-1987/> However, this early divergence later turned out to be a class of systematic errors in phylogenetic analysis called "[[long branch attraction]]".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brinkmann |first1=Henner |last2=Philippe |first2=Hervé |title=Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton |chapter=The Diversity of Eukaryotes and the Root of the Eukaryotic Tree |year=2007 |series=Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology |volume=607 |pages=20–37 |place=New York, NY |publisher=Springer New York |lang=en |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-74021-8_2 |pmid=17977456 |isbn=978-0-387-74020-1 |chapter-url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-0-387-74021-8_2 |access-date=2022-02-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Gray |first=M.W. |date=2012-09-01 |title=Mitochondrial evolution |journal=Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology |volume=4 |issue=9 |pages=a011403 |issn=1943-0264 |pmc=3428767 |pmid=22952398 |doi=10.1101/cshperspect.a011403 |lang=en}}</ref>