Thomas Cavalier-Smith

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[edit] Biography

(The following biographical stub is taken verbatum from Wikipedia)

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 [ref http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-biol/20awards.html].

Cavalier-Smith has published extensively on the classification of protists. One of his major contributions to biology was his proposal of a sixth kingdom of life: the Chromista, although the evidence for the existence of the group is still open to debate. He also proposed that all chromista and alveolata share the same common ancestor, a claim later borne out by studies of morphological and molecular evidence by other labs. He named this new group the Chromalveolates. 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.

[edit] Taxa

(The following list of new taxa named or old taxa reinterpreted by is (apart from some details under "original classification") taken verbatum from The Taxonomicon's page on Reference: Cavalier-Smith, 1998. The citation is to: Cavalier-Smith, T. 1998. a revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol. Rev. 73: 203-266.)

[edit] Original Classification

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[edit] New rank

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[edit] Published papers

The following list of references is from The Taxonomicon's page on T. Cavalier-Smith.

[edit] Articles

  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 1981. Eukaryotic kingdoms, seven or nine? BioSystems 14: 461-481. - an early paper, on Eukarya as a whole
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 1986. The kingdom Chromista: origin and systematics. Progress in Phycological Research 4: 309-347.
  • Cavalier-Smith, T., Allsopp, M.T.E.P. & Chao, E.E. 1994. Chimeric conundra: Are nucleomorphs and chromists monophyletic or polyphyletic? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 11368-11372. [Nov 1994] [Online]
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 1998. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol. Rev. 73: 203-266. - an important paper that names many new taxa
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 2002a. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52: 7-76. [14 Jan 2002] [Online]
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 2002b. The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52: 297-354. [Online]
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E.-Y. 2003. Phylogeny and classification of phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa). Protist 154(3-4): 341-358. [Oct 2003]
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E.-Y. 2003. Phylogeny of Choanozoa, Apusozoa, and Other Protozoa and Early Eukaryote Megaevolution. J. Mol. Evol. 56: 540-563.
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 2003. The excavate protozoan phyla Metamonada Grassé emend. (Anaeromonadea, Parabasalia, Carpediemonas, Eopharyngia) and Loukozoa emend. (Jakobea, Malawimonas: their evolutionary affinities and new higher taxa. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1741-1758.
  • Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E.-Y. & Oates, B. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of Amoebozoa and the evolutionary significance of the unikont Phalansterium. European Journal of Protistology 40: 21-48. [Online]
  • Bass, D. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2004. Phylum-specific environmental DNA analysis reveals remarkably high global biodiversity of Cercozoa (Protozoa). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 54: 2393-2404.
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E. 2004. Protalveolate phylogeny and the origins of Sporozoa and dinoflagellates (phylum Myzozoa nom. nov.). European Journal of Protistology 40: 21-48.
  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 2004. Only six kingdoms of life. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271: 1251-1262. Online - summary/overview of this taxonomy and phylogeny
  • Kudryavtsev, A., Bernhard, D., Schlegel, M., Chao, E.E.-Y. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2005. 18S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequences of Cochliopodium (Himatismenida) and the Phylogeny of Amoebozoa. Protist 156(2): 215-224. [Aug 2005]

[edit] Chapters

  • Cavalier-Smith, T. 2000. Flagellate megaevolution: the basis for eukaryote diversification. In Green, J.R. & Leadbeater, B.S.C. (eds.) The Flagellates, Taylor & Francis, London: 361-390.

[edit] Credits

Wikipedia, The Taxonomicon, this page MAK061016

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