Euglenozoa are paraphyletic if the eukaryotic root lies between glycomonads and the rest of eukaryotes. Response to ‘The LECA had a conventional kinetochore and the kinetoplastid kinetochore is a derived feature’
Summary: In response to a Correspondence by Raas et al., the author of Akiyoshi, 2025 maintains the hypothesis that glycomonads are the earliest-branching eukaryotes and that ancestral eukaryotes lacked kinetochores.
Authors
- Bungo Akiyoshi
Institutions
- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Cell Science
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.264522
- Primary Topic
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Wellcome Trust