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. 2012 Jan 9;7(1):e29938. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029938

Figure 5. Proposed evolutionary relationships of parabasalids.

Figure 5

The tree shows the relationships of the six parabasalian classes. Flagellar multiplication in a single mastigont system has occurred independently in the boxed classes. The multiplications have occurred ancestrally in two classes (marked with filled circles) and probably twice within the other class (open circle). Triangles indicate the occurrence of cytoskeletal simplification in undulating membrane (UM) and costa. See the text for details.