Stramenopiles

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Etymology

From stramenopile, from Latin stramen (straw) + pilus (hair), referring to an anterior flagellum with short hairlike extensions that forms during the life cycle of most members of the lineage.

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Stramenopiles

  1. A taxonomic superphylum within the infrakingdom Halvaria – heterokonts.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI