Meanings
nounchoanozoan (plural choanozoa or choanozoans)
plural choanozoa · plural choanozoans
- 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
Origin
From translingual Choanozoa + -an.
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