Thomas Cavalier-Smith

Thomas Cavalier-Smith (21 October 1942 – 19 March 2021), English evolutionary biologist. Spouse of British protistologist Ema E-Yung Chao.

IPNI standard form: Caval.-Sm.

Taxon names authored

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406 taxon names authored by Thomas Cavalier-Smith

Publications

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1981

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1981. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 14(3–4): 461–481. DOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(81)90050-2. PMID 7337818. Reference page.

1984

Cavalier-Smith, T. Feb. 1984 [‘1983’]. The kingdom Protozoa: classification and phylogeny. Protistologica 19: 472.

1986

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1986. The kingdom Chromista: origin and systematics. Progress in phycological research 4: 309–347. (Bristol: Biopress Ltd.) Reference page.

1987

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1987. The origin of eukaryote and archaebacterial cells. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 503: 17–54. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1987.tb40596.x

1990

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1990 ["1989"]. The Kingdom Chromista. In: Green, J.C., Leadbeater, B.S.C., & Diver, W.L. (eds), The Chromophyte Algae. Problems and Perspectives. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 381–407. (The Systematics Association Special Volume 38: 381–407). Reference page.

1991

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1991. Archaemoebae: the ancestral eukaryotes? BioSystems 25: 25–38.

1992

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1992 ["1991"]. Cell diversification in heterotrophic flagellates. In: Patterson, D.J. & Larsen, J. (eds.), The Biology of Free-living Heterotrophic Flagellates. Oxford University Press, pp. 113-131.

1993

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993. The origin, losses and gains of chloroplasts. In: Origins of plastids: symbiogenesis, prochlorophytes, and the origins of chloroplasts. (Lewin, R.A. Eds), pp. 291–349. New York: Chapman and Hall. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2818-0_15 . Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993. Kingdom Protozoa and its 18 phyla. Microbiological Reviews 57(4): 953–994. DOI: 10.1128/mr.57.4.953-994.1993 . PMID: 8302218 . Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993. The Protozoan phylum Opalozoa. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 40(5): 609–615. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1993.tb06117.x Reference page.
Allsopp, B.A., Baylis, H.A., Allsopp, M., Cavalier-Smith, T., Bishop, R.P., Carrington, D.M., Sohanpal, B. & Spooner, P. 1993. Discrimination between six species of Theileria using oligonucleotide probes which detect small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences. Parasitology 107(Pt 2): 157–65. DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000067263 .
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1993. Percolozoa and the symbiotic origin of the metakaryote cell. In: SATO S., ISHIDA M., ISHIKAWA H. (eds), Endocytobiology V. Proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium on Endocytobiology and Symbiosis, Kyoto, June 23-27, 1992. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press, 399–406.

1994

Cavalier-Smith, T., Allsopp, M.T.E.P. & Chao, E.E. 1994. Thraustochytrids are chromists, not Fungi: 18s rRNA signatures of Heterokonta. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 339: 139-146.

1995

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1995. Zooflagellate phylogeny and classification. Tsitologiya 37(11): 1010–1029. Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E. 1995. The opalozoan Apusomonas is related to the common ancestor of animals, fungi, and choanoflagellates. Proceedings: biological sciences 261 (1360): 1–6. JSTOR
Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E. & Allsopp, M.T.E.P. 1995. Ribosomal RNA evidence for chloroplast loss within Heterokonta: pedinellid relationships and a revised classification of ochristan algae. Archiv für Protistenkunde 145(3–4): 209–220. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9365(11)80316-7 . Reference page.

1996

Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E., Thompson, C.E., & Hourihane, S.L. 1996. Oikomonas, a distinctive zooflagellate related to chrysomonads. Archiv für Protistenkunde 146(3–4): 273–279. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9365(96)80014-5 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. & Allsopp, M.T.E.P. 1996. Corallochytrium, an enigmatic non-flagellate protozoan related to choanoflagellates. European Journal of Protistology 32(3): 306–310. DOI: 10.1016/S0932-4739(96)80053-8 . Reference page.

1997

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1997. Cell and genome coevolution: facultative anaerobiosis, glycosomes and kinetoplastan RNA editing. Trends in Genetics 13(1): 6–9. DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9525(96)30116-9
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1997. Sagenista and Bigyra, two phyla of heterotrophic heterokont chromists. Archiv für Protistenkunde 148(3): 253–267. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9365(97)80006-1 . Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. 1997. Amoeboflagellates and mitochondrial cristae in eukaryote evolution: megasystematics of the new protozoan subkingdoms Eozoa and Neozoa. Archiv für Protistenkunde 147(3–4): 237–258. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9365(97)80051-6 . Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E. 1997. Sarcomonad ribosomal RNA sequences, rhizopod phylogeny, and the origin of euglyphid amoebae. Archiv für Protistenkunde 147(3–4): 227–236. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9365(97)80050-4 .
McFadden, G.I., Gilson, P.R., Douglas, S.E., Cavalier-Smith, T., Hofmann, C.J., Maier, U.G. 1997. Bonsai genomics: sequencing the smallest eukaryotic genomes. Trends in Genetics 13(2): 46–9. DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9525(97)01010-x

1998

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1998. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biological Reviews 73(3): 203–266. DOI: 10.1017/s0006323198005167 PDF Free Reference page.

1999

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1999. Principles of protein and lipid targeting in secondary symbiogenesis: euglenoid, dinoflagellate, and sporozoan plastid origins and the eukaryote family tree. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 46(4): 347–366. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1999.tb04614.x .
Ishida, K., Green, B.R. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 1999. Diversification of a chimaeric algal group, the chlorarachniophytes: phylogeny of nuclear and nucleomorph small-subunit rRNA genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16(3): 321. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026113

2002

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2002. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52(Pt 1):7-76. DOI: 10.1099/00207713-52-1-7 . Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. 2002. The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52(2): 297–354. DOI: 10.1099/00207713-52-2-297 Reference page.

2003

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. DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02548-0 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith T. 2003. Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa. European Journal of Protistology 39: 338–348. DOI: 10.1078/0932-4739-00002 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E. 2003. Phylogeny and classification of phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa). Protist 154(3–4): 341–358. PMID: 14658494 DOI: 10.1078/143446103322454112 Reference page.

2004

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2004. Chromalveolate diversity and cell megaevolution: interplay of membranes, genomes and cytoskeleton. In: Hirt, R. P. & Horner, D. S. (eds), Organelles, genomes and eukaryote phylogeny. An evolutionary synthesis in the age of genomics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 75–108. (The Systematics Association Special Volume 68: 75–108). Reference page.
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(1): 21–48. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2003.10.001 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E.-Y. 2004. Protalveolate phylogeny and systematics and the origins of Sporozoa and dinoflagellates (phylum Myzozoa nom. nov.). European Journal of Protistology 40(3): 185–212. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2004.01.002 Reference page.
Bass, D. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2004. Phylum-specific environmental DNA analysis reveals remarkably high global biodiversity of Cercozoa (Protozoa). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54(6): 2393–2404. DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63229-0 Reference page.

2006

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2006. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biology Direct 1: 19. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-1-19
Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E.E.-Y. 2006. Phylogeny and megasystematics of phagotrophic heterokonts (Kingdom Chromista). Journal of Molecular Evolution 62(4): 388–420. DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0353-8 Reference page.
Karpov, S.A., Bass, D., Mylnikov, A.P. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of Cercomonadidae and kinetid patterns of Cercomonas and Eocercomonas gen. nov. (Cercomonadida, Cercozoa). Protist 157(2): 125–158. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2006.01.001 Reference page.

2008

Shalchian-Tabrizi, K., Minge, M.A., Espelund, M., Orr, R., Ruden, T., Jakobsen, K.S. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2008. Multigene phylogeny of choanozoa and the origin of animals. PLoS ONE 3(5): e2098. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002098 . Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith T. & Nikolaev S. 2008. The Zooflagellates Stephanopogon and Percolomonas are a Clade (Class Percolatea: Phylum Percolozoa). The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 55(6): 501–509. PMID: 19120795 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00356.x Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T., Lewis, R., Chao, E.E.-Y., Oates, B. & Bass, D. 2008. Morphology and phylogeny of Sainouron acronematica sp. n. and the ultrastructural unity of Cercozoa. Protist 159(4): 591–620. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2008.04.002 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E., Stechmann, A., Oates, B. & Nikolaev, S. 2008. Planomonadida ord. nov. (Apusozoa): ultrastructural affinity with Micronuclearia podoventralis and deep divergences within Planomonas gen. nov. Protist 159: 535–562. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2008.06.002

2009

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2009. Megaphylogeny, Cell Body Plans, Adaptive Zones: Causes and Timing of Eukaryote Basal Radiations. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 56(1): 26–33. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00373.x
Cavalier-Smith, T., Lewis, R., Chao, E.E.-Y., Oates, B. & Bass, D. 2009. Helkesimastix marina n. sp. (Cercozoa: Sainouroidea superfam. n.) a gliding zooflagellate of novel ultrastructure and unusual ciliary behaviour. Protist 160(3): 452–459. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2009.03.003 Reference page.
Bass, D., Howe, A.T., Mylnikov, A.P., Vickerman, K., Chao, E.E.-Y., Smallbone, J.E., Snell, J., Cabral Jr, C., & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of Cercomonadida (Protozoa, Cercozoa): Cercomonas, Eocercomonas, Paracercomonas, and Cavernomonas gen. nov. Protist 160(4): 483–521. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2009.01.004 Reference page.
Minge, M.A., Silberman, J.D., Orr, R.J.S., Cavalier-Smith, T., Shalchian-Tabrizi, K., Burki, F., Skjæveland, A. & Jakobsen, K.S. 2009. Evolutionary position of breviate amoebae and the primary eukaryote divergence. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 276: 597–604. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1358

2010

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2010. Kingdoms Protozoa and Chromista and the eozoan root of the eukaryotic tree. Biology Letters 6(3): 342–345. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0948 . Reference page.
Fiore-Donno, A.M., Kamono, A., Chao, E.E., Fukui, M. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2010. Invalidation of Hyperamoeba by Transferring its Species to Other Genera of Myxogastria. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 57: 189–196. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00466.x

2011

Howe, A.T., Bass, D., Scoble, J.M., Lewis, R., Vickerman, K., Arndt, H. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2011. Novel cultured protists identify deep-branching environmental DNA clades of Cercozoa: new genera Tremula, Micrometopion, Minimassisteria, Nudifila, Peregrinia. Protist 162(2): 332–372. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2010.10.002 Reference page.

2012

Cavalier-Smith, T. & Karpov, S.A. 2012. Paracercomonas kinetid ultrastructure, origins of the body plan of Cercomonadida, and cytoskeleton evolution in Cercozoa. Protist 163(1): 47–75. Abstract. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.06.004 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T., & Oates, B. 2012. Ultrastructure of Allapsa vibrans and the body plan of Glissomonadida (Cercozoa). Protist 163(2): 165-187.

2013

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2013. Early evolution of eukaryote feeding modes, cell structural diversity, and classification of the protozoan phyla Loukozoa, Sulcozoa, and Choanozoa. European Journal of Protistology 49(2): 115–178. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2012.06.001 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T. & Scoble, J.M. 2013. Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes. European Journal of Protistology 49: 328–353. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002 Researchgate. Reference page.
Yabuki, A., Ishida, K.-I. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2013. Rigifila ramosa n. gen., n. sp., a filose apusozoan with a distinctive pellicle, is related to Micronuclearia. Protist, 164(1): 75–88. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2012.04.005 Reference page.

2014

Scoble, J.M. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2014. Scale evolution in Paraphysomonadida (Chrysophyceae): sequence phylogeny and revised taxonomy of Paraphysomonas, new genus Clathromonas, and 25 new species. European Journal of Protistology 50(5): 551–592. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2014.08.001 Reference page.
Scoble, J.M. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2014. Scale evolution, sequence phylogeny, and taxonomy of thaumatomonad Cercozoa: 11 new species and new genera Scutellomonas, Cowlomonas, Thaumatospina and Ovaloplaca. European Journal of Protistology 50(3): 270–313. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2013.12.005 Reference page.

2015

Ruggiero, M.A., Gordon, D.P., Orrell, T.M., Bailly, N., Bourgoin, T., Brusca, R.C., Cavalier-Smith, T., Guiry, M.D. & Kirk, P.M. 2015. A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 . [Correction in 10(6): e0130114 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130114 .] Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E. & Lewis, R. 2015. Multiple origins of Heliozoa from flagellate ancestors: New cryptist subphylum Corbihelia, superclass Corbistoma, and monophyly of Haptista, Cryptista, Hacrobia and Chromista. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 331–362. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.004 Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T., Fiore-Donno, A.M., Chao, E., Kudryavtsev, A., Berney, C., Snell, E.A. & Lewis, R. 2015 (Print), 2014 (Online). Multigene phylogeny resolves deep branching of Amoebozoa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 83: 293–304. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.08.011 . Reference page.

2016

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2016. Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa. European Journal of Protistology 56: 250–276. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2016.09.003 . PMID: 27889663 . Reference page.
Cavalier-Smith, T., Chao, E.E.-Y. & Vickerman, K. 2016. New phagotrophic euglenoid species (new genus Decastava; Scytomonas saepesedens; Entosiphon oblongum), Hsp90 introns, and putative euglenoid Hsp90 pre-mRNA insertional editing. European Journal of Protistology 56: 147–170. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2016.08.002 Reference page.

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