Heterokont

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Heterokont
Ochromonas sp. (Chrysophyceae), with two unequal (heterokont) flagella. Mastigonemes not represented.
Ochromonas sp. (Chrysophyceae), with two unequal (heterokont) flagella. Mastigonemes not represented.
Scientific classification e
Clade: SAR
Infrakingdom: Heterokonta
Cavalier-Smith, 1986[1]
Typical classes

Colored groups (alga-like)
Ochrophyta

Colorless groups
Pseudofungi

Bigyra

Synonyms
  • Stramenopiles Patterson, 1989[2]
  • Straminopiles Vørs, 1993[3][4]
  • Heterokontophyta van den Hoek et al., 1995[5]
  • Stramenopila Alexopoulos et al., 1996[6]
  • Straminipila Dick, 2001[7]
  • Stramenipila Dick, 2001, orth. var.[8]

Heterokonts are a group of protists (formally referred to as Heterokonta, Heterokontae or Heterokontophyta). The group is a major line of eukaryotes.[9][10] Most are algae, ranging from the giant multicellular kelp to the unicellular diatoms, which are a primary component of plankton. Other notable members of the Stramenopiles include the (generally) parasitic oomycetes, including Phytophthora, which caused the Great Famine of Ireland, and Pythium, which causes seed rot and damping off.

The name "heterokont" refers to the type of motile life cycle stage, in which the flagellated cells possess two differently arranged flagella (see zoospore).

History[]

In 1899, Alexander Luther created "Heterokontae" for some algae with unequal flagella, today called Xanthophyceae.[11] Later, some authors (e.g., Copeland, 1956) included other groups in Heterokonta, expanding its sense. The term continues to be applied in different ways, leading to Heterokontophyta being applied also to the phylum Ochrophyta. The term 'Stramenopile' was introduced in 1989 by Patterson [12] to overcome ambiguities that had (and continue to be) developed with the use of the term 'heterokont'. Consequently, heterokonts may be referred to as stramenopiles.

The term 'heterokont' first emerged in the context of 19th century phycology. Over time, the scope of application has changed; especially when in the 1970's as ultrastructural studies revealed greater diversity among the algae with chromoplasts (= chlorophylls a and c) than had previously been recognized. At the same time, a protistological perspective was replacing the 19th century one based on the division of unicellular eukaryotes along inappropriate botanical/zoological lines. One consequence was that an array of heterotrophic organisms, many of which had not been previously considered as 'heterokonts' were seen as being related to the 'core heterokonts' (i.e. those having anterior flagella with stiff hairs). Newly recognized relatives included the parasitic opalines, proteromonads, and actinophryid heliozoa. They joined other heterotrophic protists, such as bicosoecids, labyrinthulids, and oomycete fungi, that were included by some as heterokonts and excluded by others. Rather than continue to use a name whose meaning had changed over time and was hence ambiguous, the name 'stramenopile' was introduced to refer to the clade of protists that had tripartite stiff (usually flagellar) hairs and all their descendents. Molecular studies confirm that the genes that code for the proteins of these hairs are exclusive to stramenopiles.[13] As the concept of 'Stramenopile' is based on a presumed apomorphy, it is stable and robust even when its composition changes. There is a widespread presumption, as here, that the terms 'stramenopile' and 'heterokont' are synonyms. They are not because they are defined differently and despite compositional overlap, most applications of the names imply differing compositions.

Morphology[]

Motile cells[]

Schematic drawing of Cafeteria roenbergensis (a bicosoecid) with heterokont flagella: the anterior flagellum has tripartite hairs or mastigonemes) and the posterior flagellum is without hairs smooth

Many heterokonts are unicellular flagellates, and most others produce flagellated cells at some point in their lifecycles, for instance as gametes or zoospores. The name heterokont now refers to the characteristic form of these cells, which typically have two unequal flagella. The anterior flagellum is covered with one or two rows of lateral hairs or mastigonemes, which are tripartite (i.e. with a flexible basal insertion, a stiff hollow component, and tipped with fine delicate hairs), while the posterior flagellum is smooth, and usually shorter, or sometimes reduced to a basal body. The flagella are inserted subapically or laterally, and are usually supported by four microtubule roots in a distinctive pattern. Opalines have many rows of flagella that do not have flagellar hairs. They are closely related to endosymbiotic proteromonad flagellates some of which have tripartite hairs extending from the body surface.

Mastigonemes are manufactured from glycoproteins in the endoplasmic reticulum before being transported to the anterior flagellar surface. When the hairy flagellum beats, the stiff mastigonemes are forced backwards and this creates a retrograde current, pulling the cell through the water or bringing in food.

The term mastigonemes refers to various types of flagellar hairs, but those of stramenopiles have a distinctive structure. It was treated as the evolutionary innovation that defined the stramenopiles, and although not initially so, it is increasingly treated as the defining characteristic of the heterokonts. Mastigonemes have been lost in a few heterkont lines, most notably the diatoms, opalines, and actinphryid heliozoa.

Chloroplasts[]

Many heterokonts are algae with chloroplasts surrounded by four membranes, which are counted from the outermost to the innermost membrane. The first membrane is continuous with the host's chloroplast endoplasmic reticulum, or cER. The second membrane presents a barrier between the lumen of the cER and the primary endosymbiont or chloroplast, which represents the next two membranes, within which the thylakoid membranes are found. This arrangement of membranes has led to the hypothesis that heterokont chloroplasts were obtained from the reduction of a symbiotic red algal eukaryote, which had arisen by evolutionary divergence from the monophyletic primary endosymbiotic ancestor that is thought to have given rise to all eukaryotic photoautotrophs. The chloroplasts characteristically contain chlorophyll a and chlorophyll c, and usually the accessory pigment fucoxanthin, giving them a golden-brown or brownish-green colour. Because of this colour, they are referred to as 'chromoplasts' distinguishing them from chlorophyll B containing plastids of green algae, their descendants the higher plants, and euglenids.

Most basal heterokonts are colorless. This suggests that they diverged before the acquisition of chloroplasts within the group. However, fucoxanthin-containing chloroplasts are also found among the haptophytes. This led to hypotheses that all organisms with chlorophyll a/c containing chloroplasts have a common phylogenetic history with cryptomonads, and should be taxonomically grouped as the Chromista. Molecular studies do not confirm that the stramenopiles, haptophytes, and cryptomonads are sister taxa.[14] The current consensus is that the ancestral stramenopiles / heterokonts were heterotrophic and acquired chloroplasts after their defining feature (the tripartite hairs) appeared.

Classification[]

As noted above, classification varies considerably. Originally, the heterokont algae was used only for Xanthophytes. The concept morphed to include more lineages and considered by some as part of the kingdom Plantae and later, by others, as within the Protista. An example is:

Division Chrysophyta
Class Chrysophyceae (golden algae)
Class Bacillariophyceae (diatoms)
Division Phaeophyta (brown algae)

In this scheme, the Chrysophyceae is conceived of a very extensive group (Chrysophyte sensu lato) that was paraphyletic - as the diatoms and brown algae evolved from within the chrysophytes. Over time, various lineages have been given their own classes and often divisions. Recent systems often treat these as classes within a single division, called the Heterokontophyta, Chromophyta, or Ochrophyta. This is not universal, however; Round et al. treat the diatoms as a division.

The discovery that oomycetes and hyphochytrids are related to these algae, rather than fungi, as previously thought, has led many authors to include these two groups among the heterokonts. Should it turn out that they evolved from colored ancestors, the heterokont group would be paraphyletic in their absence. Once again, however, usage varies. David J. Patterson named this extended group the stramenopiles, characterized by the presence of tripartite mastigonemes, mitochondria with tubular cristae, and open mitosis. He used the stramenopiles as a prototype for a classification without Linnaean rank. Their composition has been essentially stable, but their use within ranked systems varies.

Thomas Cavalier-Smith treats the heterokonts as identical in composition with the stramenopiles; this is the definition followed here. He has proposed placing them in a separate kingdom, the Chromalveolata, together with the haptophytes, cryptomonads, and alveolates. This is one of the most common revisions to the five-kingdom system, but has not been adopted, because Chromalveolata is not a monophyletic group. A few treat the Chromalveolata as identical in composition with the heterokonts, or list them as a kingdom Stramenopila.

Some sources divide the heterokonts into the autotrophic Ochrophyta and heterotrophic Bigyra and Pseudofungi.[15] However, some modifications to these classifications have been suggested.

The name Heterokonta can be confused with the (much older) name Heterokontae, which is generally equivalent to the Xanthophyceae, a limited subset of the Heterokonta.[16]

The simplified classification of the group according to Adl et al. (2012), in which heterokonts (using the term Stramenopiles) are part of a larger clade that embraces Alveolates and Rhizaria, is:[17]

Eukaryota

  • SAR
    • Stramenopiles Patterson, 1989, emend. Adl et al., 2005
      • Opalinata Wenyon, 1926, emend. Cavalier-Smith, 1997 (Slopalinida Patterson, 1985)
      • Blastocystis Alexeev, 1911
      • Bicosoecida Grassé, 1926, emend. Karpov, 1998
      • Moriya et al., 2002
      • Labyrinthulomycetes Dick, 2001
      • Hyphochytriales Sparrow, 1960
      • Peronosporomycetes Dick, 2001 (Öomycetes Winter, 1897, emend. Dick, 1976)
      • Actinophryidae Claus 1874, emend. Hartmann 1926
      • Bolidomonas Guillou & Chrétiennot-Dinet, 1999 (Bolidophyceae in Guillou et al., 1999)
      • Chrysophyceae Pascher, 1914
      • Dictyochophyceae Silva, 1980
      • Eustigmatales Hibberd, 1981
      • Barcytė, Eikrem & M.Eliáš, 2021[18][19]
      • Pelagophyceae Andersen & Saunders, 1993
      • Phaeothamniophyceae Andersen & Bailey, in Bailey et al., 1998
      • Pinguiochrysidales Kawachi et al., 2003
      • Raphidophyceae Chadefaud, 1950, emend. Silva, 1980
      • Synurales Andersen, 1987
      • Xanthophyceae Allorge, 1930, emend. Fritsch, 1935 (Heterokontae Luther, 1899, Leedale, 1983, Xanthophyta Hibberd, 1990)
      • Phaeophyceae Hansgirg, 1886 (not Kjellman, 1891, not Pfitzer, 1894)
      • Henry et al., in Kawai et al., 2003 ( Kawai et al., 2003) (M)
      • Diatomea Dumortier, 1821 (= Bacillariophyta Haeckel, 1878)
    • Alveolata
    • Rhizaria

Phylogeny[]

Based on the following works of Ruggiero et al. 2015 & Silar 2016.[20][21][22]

Platysulcidae Shiratori, Nkayama & Ishida 2015

Sagenista s.s.

Eogyrea

Labyrinthulea

Bikosea Cavalier-Smith 2013

Placidozoa

Moriya, Nakayama & Inouye 2002

Cavalier-Smith 2013

Cavalier-Smith 2013

Opalinata

Zierdt et al. 1967

Opalinea Wenyon 1926 emend. Cavalier-Smith 1993

Bigyromonadea Cavalier-Smith 1998

Oomycota Arx 1967

Hyphochytriomycota Whittaker 1969

Pirsoniales Cavalier-Smith 1998

Ochrophyta
Khakista

Bolidophyceae Guillou & Chretiennot-Dinet 1999

Bacillariophyceae Haeckel 1878

Phaeista
Hypogyristea s.s.

Dictyochophyceae Silva 1980 s.l.

Chrysista

Pinguiophyceae Kawachi et al. 2002

Eustigmatophyceae Hibberd & Leedale 1971

Cavalier-Smith 2006

Synchromophyceae Horn & Wilhelm 2007

Geitler 1942

Chrysophyceae Pascher 1914

Raphidophyceae s.l.

Phaeophyceae Hansgirg 1886

Chrysomerophyceae Cavalier-Smith 1995

Phaeothamniophyceae Andersen & Bailey 1998 s.l.

Xanthophyceae Allorge 1930 emend. Fritsch 1935

Gallery[]

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