Talk:Excavate
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[edit] explanation
Do we need the excavation explanation at the top?
It's useful because people sometimes make links to this page when they're talking about excavating. At the moment, for instance, the page on Huguenot tunnel has made this mistake.
Does anyone have any info regarding the phylogenetic relationships between the Excavate taxa? I rember reading somewhere that the Metamonads had ancestors with mitochondria (destroying the old "Archaezoa" hypothesis of basal Eukaryote phylogeny) and that the mitochondria-bearing Jakobids may be the most primitive and most deeply branching Eukaryotes.
--Odin2006 20:04, 13 August 2006 (UTC) (Taylor Selseth)
[edit] Jakobids
Why isn't there a jakobid page? Could someone with knowledge on this group please create a page? Werothegreat 12:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Discicristates
Why isn't there a page on discicristates (discicristata), they are a distinct group that are passed over and redirected to this article.
Also, was this article just copy-pasted, because I get that sense from it. Wiki wiki1 20:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- Discicristates are a group of excavates, including the Euglenozoa and Percolozoa. Yes, it should be expWerothegreat 19:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)lained here.
[edit] higher classification
For the time being, I'd like to suggest we remove the reference to Cabozoa from the taxobox. Some studies have contradicted the hypothesis that Excavates are sister group to Rhizaria, for example Burki et al. 2007. Phylogenomics Reshuffles the Eukaryotic Supergroups. PLoS ONE 2(8): e790. Cephal-odd (talk) 14:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
