choanoflagellateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

choanoflagellate (plural choanoflagellates)

1. (biology) Any of a group of flagellate protozoa, of the class Choanoflagellatea, thought to be the closest unicellular ancestors of animals.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 30:

     Choanoflagellates are plankton: tiny protozoans that feed on even tinier bacteria.

   • 2017 August 1, Douglas Fox, “Aliens in our midst”, in Aeon‎:

     Detailed studies showed that the sponge and the cells of a protist called a choanoflagellate used a different set of genes and proteins to build similar-looking structures.

同意語

• craspedophyte

Further reading

• choanoflagellate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia