Editing Discicristata

{{Short description|Taxonomic clade}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{long fossil range|1200|0}}
| image = Acrasis rosea 31330.jpg
| image_alt = The heterolobosean protozoa species "Acrasis rosea" Olive & Stoian
| image_caption = The [[heterolobosea]]n [[protozoa]] species ''[[Acrasis rosea]]'' <small>Olive & Stoian</small>
| taxon = Discicristata
| authority = 
| subdivision_ranks = Phyla
| subdivision = *[[Euglenozoa]]
*[[Percolozoa]]
| synonyms = Discomitochondria <br/><small>[[Lynn Margulis|Margulis]] & Schwartz, 1998</small>
}}

'''Discicristata''' is a proposed eukaryotic clade. It consists of [[Euglenozoa]] plus [[Percolozoa]].<ref name="pmid14657102">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cavalier-Smith T |title=The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas): their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa |journal=Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. |volume=53 |issue=Pt 6 |pages=1741–58 |date=November 2003 |pmid=14657102 |doi= 10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0|url=http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=14657102|doi-access=free }}</ref>

It was proposed that Discicristata plus [[Cercozoa]] yielded [[Cabozoa]].<ref name="pmid18092388">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cavalier-Smith T |title=Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree |journal=J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=347–66 |year=1999 |pmid=18092388 |doi= 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04614.x|s2cid=22759799 }}</ref> Another proposal is to group Discicristata with [[Jakobida]] into [[Discoba]] [[superphylum]].<ref name="pmid19237557">{{cite journal |vauthors=Hampl V, Hug L, Leigh JW |title=Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups" |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=106 |issue=10 |pages=3859–64 |date=March 2009 |pmid=19237557 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0807880106 |pmc=2656170 |bibcode=2009PNAS..106.3859H|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free }}</ref>
[[File:Two Euglena.jpg|thumb|left|Two ''[[Euglena]]'' ]]

==See also==
* [[Excavata]]

==References==
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