Editing Flagellate (section)

== Flagellates as specialized cells or life cycle stages ==

An overview of the occurrence of flagellated cells in eukaryote groups, as specialized cells of multicellular organisms or as life cycle stages, is given below (see also the article [[flagellum]]):<ref>Raven, J.A. 2000. The flagellate condition. In: (B.S.C. Leadbeater and J.C. Green, eds) ''The flagellates. Unity, diversity and evolution''. The Systematics Association Special Volume 59. Taylor and Francis, London. pp. 269–287.</ref><ref>Webster, J & Weber, R (2007). ''Introduction to Fungi'' (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 23–24, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SApIn7IEnucC&pg=PT64]</ref><ref name="Adl et al. 2012">Adl et al. (2012).</ref>
* [[Archaeplastida]]: most [[green algae]] ([[zoospores]] and male [[gamete]]s, except in [[Zygnematophyceae]]), [[bryophyte]]s (male gametes), [[pteridophyte]]s (male gametes), some [[gymnosperm]]s ([[cycad]]s and ''[[Ginkgo]]'', as male gametes)
* [[Stramenopiles]]: centric [[diatom]]s (male gametes), [[brown algae]] (zoospores and gametes), [[oomycete]]s (assexual zoospores and gametes), [[hyphochytrid]]s (zoospores), [[labyrinthulomycetes]] (zoospores), some [[chrysophyte]]s, some [[xanthophyte]]s, [[eustigmatophyte]]s
* [[Alveolata]]: some [[apicomplexan]]s (gametes)
* [[Rhizaria]]: some [[radiolarian]]s (probably gametes),<ref>Lahr DJ, Parfrey LW, Mitchell EA, Katz LA, Lara E (July 2011). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21429931 The chastity of amoebae: re-evaluating evidence for sex in amoeboid organisms]. ''Proc. Biol. Sci.'' 278 (1715): 2083–6.</ref> [[foraminiferan]]s (as gametes)
** [[Cercozoa]]: [[Phytomyxea|plasmodiophoromycete]]s (zoospores and gametes), [[chlorarachniophyte]]s (zoospores)
* [[Amoebozoa]]: [[myxogastrid]]s
* [[Opisthokonta]]: most [[metazoan]]s (male gametes, [[epithelia]] and [[choanocyte]]s), [[chytrid]] fungi (zoospores and gametes)
* [[Excavata]]: some [[acrasid]]s (''Pocheina'', as zoospores)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tice|first=Alexander|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/985464464|title=Understanding the evolution of aggregative multicellularity : a molecular phylogenetic study of the cellular slime mold genera sorodiplophrys and pocheina|year=2015|publisher=University of Arkansas, Fayetteville |isbn=978-1-321-68823-8|oclc=985464464}}</ref>