Evolutionary tree

The evolutionary tree of living things is currently supposed to run something along the lines of that listed below. Most of the above tree was based on ideas from cladistics; where more than two groups are shown in a single branch, there is disagreement about how they diverged. Hypothetically taxonomy would follow the tree whenever possible, but it many places it does not at present.

• Life
  • Domain Eubacteria
    • Aquificales
    • CFB/Green? sulfur bacteria group
    • Chlamydiales/Verrucomicrobia? group
    • Chrysiogenes group
    • Coprothermobacter group
    • Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
    • Dictyoglomus group
    • Fibrobacter/Acidobacteria? group
    • Firmicutes (gram-positive bacteria)
    • Flexistipes group
    • Fusobacteria
    • Green non-sulfur bacteria
    • Nitrospira group
    • Proteobacteria
    • Spirochaetales
    • Synergistes group
    • Thermodesulfobacterium group
    • Thermotogales
    • Thermus/Deinococcus? group
    • ...
  • Domain Archaea
    • Crenarchaeota (extremely thermophilic archaebacteria)
    • Euryarchaeota
    • Korarchaeota
    • ...
  • Domain Eukaryota, organisms with cells containing a nucleus
    • Retortamonads?
    • Diplomonads?
    • Oxymonads?
    • Parabasalia?
    • Microsporidia?
    • Pelobionts
    • Entamoebae
    • Mitochondrial eukaryotes
      • Heterolobosea (amoeboflagellates, some cellular slime molds)
      • Euglenozoa
        • Kinetoplastids (e.g. Bodo, Trypanosoma?)
        • Euglenids (e.g. Euglena?)
        • Diplonemids?
      • Stephanopogon?
      • Nucleariids
      • Apusomonads?
      • Cercomonads?
      • Ellobiopsids?
      • Kathablepharids?
      • Pseudodendromonads?
      • Spironemids?
      • Spongomonads?
      • Thaumatomonads?
      • Chlorarachniophytes?
      • Copromyxids?
      • Granuloreticulosa? (e.g. Foraminiferans)
      • Plasmodiophorids?
      • Vampyrellids
      • Ramicristates (most lobose and filose amoebae, plasmodial and cellular slime moulds)
      • Dimorphids?
      • Actinophryids
      • Desmothoracids
      • Gymnosphaerids
      • Sticholonche?
      • Acantharea
      • Phaeodarea?
      • Polycystinea?
      • Paramyxea?
      • Haplosporidia?
      • Alveolates
        • Apicomplexa
        • Ciliophora (ciliates, e.g. Paramecium, Stentor)
        • Dinoflagellates (e.g. Noctiluca)
      • Ebriids?
      • Haptophytes?
      • Stramenopiles
        • Bicosoecids?
        • Proteromonads?
        • Opalines?
        • Hypochytidiomycota?
        • Oomycota? (water molds)
        • Labyrinthulids? (slime nets, e.g. Labyrinthula)
        • "Stramenochromes"
          • Chrysophyta? (golden algae - PARAPHYLETIC)
          • Xanthophyta? (yellow-green algae)
          • Phaeophyta? (brown algae, e.g. Fucus)
          • Diatoms
          • Raphidiophyta?
          • Eustigmatophyta?
      • Jakobids?
      • Malawimonads?
      • Naugleria?
      • Xenophyophorea?
      • Cryptomonads
      • Glaucophytes?
      • Rhodophyta? (red algae, e.g. Polysiphonia)
      • Gymnophrea?
      • Centrohelids
      • "Opisthokonts"
        • Kingdom Fungi
        • Choanoflagellates?
        • Kingdom /Animalia, animals
      • Kingdom Plantae, plants and green algae

References:

1. Colin Tudge, "The Variety of Life -- A survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived", Oxford University Press, 2000
2. http://phylogeny.arizona.edu The Tree of Life -- A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity

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