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 Professor Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith (born October 21, 1942), FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow, is a Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford. He was presented with the International Prize for Biology (a prize of 10 million yen) in 2004.[1] He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MA) and at King's College London (PhD). Cavalier-Smith has published extensively on the classification of protists. One of his major contributions to biology was his proposal of a new kingdom of life: the Chromista, although the usefulness of the grouping is still open to debate. He also proposed that all chromista and alveolata share the same common ancestor, a claim later supported by studies of morphological and molecular evidence by other labs. He named this new group the Chromalveolates. He also proposed and named many other high-rank taxa, like Opisthokonta (1987), Rhizaria (2002), and Excavata (2002). Together with Chromalveolata, Amoebozoa (he emended their description in 1998), and Archaeplastida (which he called Plantae since 1981) the six form the basis of current taxonomy of eukaryotes. Prof. Cavalier-Smith has also published prodigiously on issues such as the origin of various cellular organelles (including the nucleus, mitochondria), genome size evolution, and endosymbiosis. Though fairly well known, many of his strongest claims have been controversial and have not gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community to date. Most recently, he has published a paper citing the paraphyly of his bacterial kingdom, the origin of Neomura from Actinobacteria and taxonomy of prokaryotes. According to Palaeos.com:
[edit] Cavalier-Smith's eight kingdom modelIn 1993, Cavalier-Smith divided the living world into eight kingdoms: Plantae, Animalia, Protozoa, Fungi, Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Chromista, and Archezoa.[5] Later he abandoned the kingdoms Archaebacteria and Archezoa in favor of a six kingdom model.[6] His older eight kingdom model will be described first. [edit] The first two kingdoms of life: plants and animals The use of the word "kingdom" to describe the living world dates as far back as Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) who divided the natural world into three kingdoms: animal, vegetable, and mineral.[7][8] The classifications "animal kingdom" (or kingdom Animalia) and "plant kingdom" (or kingdom Plantae) remain in use by modern evolutionary biologists.  By 1910 the animal kingdom had been subdivided into twelve phyla:
The protozoa were originally classified as members of the animal kingdom.[9] Now they are classified as a separate group. Zoology is the study of animals while botany is the study of plants. While zoologists divided the animal kingdom into phyla, botanists carved the plant kingdom into "divisions". By 1940, botanists had carved the plant kingdom into five divisions:
Fungi and bacteria were included within the plant division thallophyta.[9] Today, bacteria are no longer classified as plants and fungi are known to be more closely related to animals than to plants. [edit] The third kingdom: protists By mid-nineteenth century, microscopic organisms were generally classified into four groups:
In 1858, Richard Owen (1804–1892) proposed that the animal phylum Protozoa be elevated to the status of kingdom.[5] In 1860, John Hogg (1800–1869) proposed that protozoa and protophyta be grouped together into a new kingdom which he called "Primigenum". According to Hogg, this new classification scheme prevented "the unnecessary trouble of contending about their supposed natures, and of uselessly trying to distinguish the Protozoa from the Protophyta". In 1866, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) proposed the name "Protista" for the Primigenum kingdom and included bacteria in this third kingdom of life.[8] [edit] The fourth kingdom: fungi Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants. By 1959, Robert Harding Whittaker(1920–1980) proposed that fungi, which were formerly classified as plants, be given their own kingdom. His four kingdoms of life were:
Whittaker subdivided the Protista into two subkingdoms:
[edit] The fifth kingdom: bacteriaBacteria are fundamentally different from the eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi, amebas, protozoa, and chromista). Eukaryotes have cell nuclei, bacteria do not. In 1969, Robert Whittaker elevated the bacteria to the status of kingdom. His new classification system divided the living world into five kingdoms: Note: the word "protist" is ambiguous.
[edit] The three domains of life The kingdom Monera can be divided into two distinct groups: eubacteria and archaebacteria. In 1977 Carl Woese and George E. Fox proposed that eubacteria and archaebacteria both be elevated to the status of super-kingdom.[13] In 1990, Woese further elevated the status of bacteria by dividing life into three domains:
Note: the modern use of the word "bacteria" is ambiguous. It may refer either to eubacteria (as in the above phylogenetic tree) or prokaryotes (as in reference to the kingdom Monera). [edit] The seventh kingdom: chromista By 1981, Cavalier-Smith had divided the domain Eukaryota into nine kingdoms.[14] By 1993, he reduced the total number of eukaryote kingdoms down to six. He also classified the domains Eubacteria and Archaebacteria as kingdoms, adding up to a total of eight kingdoms of life:
Cavalier-Smith's new classification scheme retained the plant, animal and fungal kingdoms from the traditional five kingdom model. It also split the kingdom Monera into the two groups, eubacteria and archaebacteria, as proposed by Woese and Fox. In addition it split the kingdom protists into three new kingdoms: archezoa, protozoa, and chromista. Most chromists are photosynthetic. This distinguishes them from most other protists. In both plants and chromists photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts. In plants, however, the chloroplasts are located in the cytosol while in chromists the chloroplasts are located in the lumen of their rough endoplasmic reticulum. This distinguishes chromists from plants.[5] [edit] The eighth kingdom: archezoaCavalier-Smith's eighth kingdom, Archezoa [15] is now defunct. He now assigns former members of the kingdom Archezoa to the phylum Amoebozoa.[16] [edit] Kingdom protozoaCavalier-Smith referred to what remained of the protist kingdom, after he removed the kingdoms Archezoa and Chromista, as the "kingdom Protozoa". In 1993, this kingdom contained 18 phyla as summarized in the following table:[5]
The phylum Opalozoa was established by Cavalier-Smith in 1991.[19] [edit] Cavalier-Smith's six kingdom modelsBy 1998, Cavalier-Smith had reduced the total number of kingdoms from eight down to six : Animalia, Protozoa, Fungi, Plantae (including red and green algae), Chromista and Bacteria.[18] Five of Cavalier-Smith's kingdoms are classified as eukaryotes as shown in the following scheme:
Eukaryotes are divided into two major groups: unikonts and bikonts. Uniciliates are cells with only one flagellum and unikonts are descended from uniciliates. Unikont cells often have only one centriole as well. Biciliate cells have two flagella and bikonts are descended from biciliates. Biciliates undergo ciliary transformation by converting a younger anterior flagellum into a dissimilar older posterior flagellum. Animals and fungi are unikonts while plants and chromista are bikonts. Some protozoa are unikonts while others are bikonts. The Bacteria (= prokaryotes) are subdivided into Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. According to Cavalier-Smith, eubacteria is the oldest group of terrestrial organisms still living. He classifies the groups which he believes are younger (archaebacteria and eukaryotes) as neomura. [edit] His 1998 model[edit] Kingdom animaliaIn 1993, Cavalier-Smith classified Myxozoa as a protozoan parvkingdom. By 1998, he had reclassified it as an animal subkingdom. Myxozoa contains three phyla, Myxosporidia, Haplosporidia, and Paramyxia, which were reclassified as animals along with Myxozoa. Likewise, Cavalier-Smith reclassified the protozoan phylum Mesozoa as an animal subkingdom. In his 1998 scheme, the animal kingdom was divided into four subkingdoms:
He created three new animal phyla:
and recognized a total of 23 animal phyla.[18] [edit] Kingdom protozoaUnder Cavalier-Smith's proposed classification system, protozoa share the following traits:
Organisms that do not meet these criteria were reassigned to other kingdoms by Cavalier-Smith. [edit] His 2003 model[edit] Kingdom protozoaIn 1993, Cavalier-Smith divided the kingdom Protozoa into two subkingdoms and 18 phyla.[5] By 2003 he used phylogenic evidence to revise the total number of proposed phyla down to 11: Amoebozoa, Choanozoa, Cercozoa, Retaria, Loukozoa, Metamonada, Euglenozoa, Percolozoa, Apusozoa, Alveolata, Ciliophora, and Miozoa. [17] [edit] AmoebasAmoebas do not have flagella and are difficult to classify as unikont or bikont based on morphology. In his 1993 classification scheme, Cavalier-Smith incorrectly classified amoebas as bikonts. Gene fusion research later revealed that the clade Amoebozoa, was ancestrally uniciliate. In his 2003 classification scheme, Cavalier-Smith reassigned Amoebozoa to the unikont clade along with animals, fungi, and the protozoan phylum Choanozoa. Plants and all other protists where assigned to the clade Bikont by Cavalier-Smith.[17] Cavalier-Smith's 2003 classification scheme:
[edit] CladogramBy September 2003, Cavalier-Smith's tree of life looked like this:[20]
In the above tree, the traditional plant, animal, and fungal kingdoms, as well as Cavalier-Smith's proposed Chromista kingdom, are shown as leaves. The leaves Eubacteria and Archaebacteria together make up the Bacteria kingdom. All remaining leaves together make up the protozoa kingdom. [edit] Rooting the tree of lifeIn 2006, Cavalier-Smith proposed that the last common ancestor to all terrestrial organisms was a non-flagellate negibacterium with two membranes.[21] [edit] Work (samples)
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