choanozoan

English

Etymology

From translingual Choanozoa +‎ -an.

Noun

choanozoan (plural choanozoans)

1. Any member of the Choanozoa, a phylum of protists.
   • 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^[1], volume 43, →DOI:

     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.