Bikont
| Bikonts Temporal range:
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| A radiolarian | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| (unranked): | Orthokaryotes |
| (unranked): | Neokaryotes |
| (unranked): | Cavalier-Smith, 1993 |
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A bikont ("two flagella") is any of the eukaryotic organisms classified in the group Bikonta. Many single-celled and multi-celled organisms are members of the group, and these, as well as the presumed ancestor, have two flagella.[1]
- ^ Burki F, Pawlowski J (October 2006). "Monophyly of Rhizaria and multigene phylogeny of unicellular bikonts". Mol. Biol. Evol. 23 (10): 1922–30. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl055. PMID 16829542.