Opisthokont

Opisthokonts are a superkingdom of the Eukaryota. This group has both the animals and the fungi, as well as all the living things closely related to each of them. It is a group of unikonts.

There are many classifications of the eukaryotes which are being talked about. Each of them divides the domain Eukaryota into five groups, but there is disagreement on the details.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.  PMID 16248873 

The Opisthokonta is thought to be a monophyletic clade, meaning all of its members came from one ancestor. Therefore, it is superior to the Unikonta as a taxonomic term.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.

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Category:Eukaryotes