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choanozoa

choanozoa is the plural of choanozoan.

Meaning of choanozoan

Noun

choanozoan (plural choanozoa or choanozoans)

  1. Any member of the Choanozoa, a phylum of protists.
    • It suggest that the imported aCCA gene replaced the ancestral eukaryotic eCCA gene, leading to a number of independent losses of the eCCA gene in the choanozoan groups.2015 June 27, Heike Betat et al., “The ancestor of modern Holozoa acquired the CCA-adding enzyme from Alphaproteobacteria by horizontal gene transfer”, in Nucleic Acids Research, volume 43, →DOI

Questions about choanozoa

What is choanozoa the plural of?
Choanozoa is the plural of choanozoan.

Words near choanozoa in the dictionary

  1. choanoskeletons
  2. choanosoma
  3. choanosomal
  4. choanosome
  5. choanosomes
  6. choanozoa
  7. choanozoan
  8. choanozoans
  9. Choat
  10. choate
  11. Choates

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