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Microbial Diversity

Rhizaria: Pseudopods, Tests, and Skeletons

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Rhizaria are unicellular protists with threadlike pseudopodia, which are thin cytoplasmic extensions used for movement and feeding. Their amoeboid shape once caused taxonomic confusion, but molecular phylogenetics has since shown where they fit on the evolutionary tree. This group includes Chlorarachniophyta, Radiolaria, and...

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Rhizaria represent a diverse group of protists that possess threadlike pseudopodia. There are three major subgroups — Chlorarachniophyta, Foraminifera, and Radiolaria.

Chlorarachniophyta are phototrophic protists found in both freshwater and marine environments.

They have chloroplasts with four membranes due to algal endosymbionts th...

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