Hypermastigia (hypermastigids) within microbiology, is the name used for a group of flagellate endosymbionts which were placed under the Excavata class. They are now treated as belonging to one of the groups Tritrichomonadea, Hypotrichomonadea, or Trichomonadea within the Parabasalia.[1]

References

  1. ^ Noda S, Mantini C, Meloni D, Inoue JI, Kitade O, et al. (2012). "Molecular phylogeny and evolution of Parabasalia with improved taxon sampling and new protein markers of actin and elongation factor-1α". PLOS ONE. 7 (1): e29938. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...729938N. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029938. PMC 3253790. PMID 22253832.