Neokaryotes

The neokaryotes (Cavalier-Smith 1993) are a proposed eukaryote clade consisting of the unikonts and the bikonts as sister of for instance the Jakobea. It arises because the Euglenozoa, Percolozoa, Tsukubea, and Jakobea are seen in this view as more basal eukaryotes. These four groups, are traditionally grouped together in the Discoba. However, the Discoba may well be paraphyletic as the neokaryotes may have emerged in them.^[1]

Neokaryotes
Amoeba proteus, visible are the contractile vacuole (circular) and the nucleus (somewhat dumbbell-shaped)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Orthokaryotes
Clade:	Neokaryotes
Clades
Bikont Opimoda

The group was recovered as a monophyletic group in a later analysis, Al Jewari and Baldauf (2023).^[2]

Taxonomy

A proposed cladogram is^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Eukaryota	Tsukubea Discicristata Euglenozoa Percolozoa Orthokaryotes Jakobea Neokaryotes Corticata/Diaphoretickes/ Archaeplastida Chromista Hacrobia SAR Bikont Scotokaryotes/Opimoda/Neozoa Metamonada Malawimonas Sulcozoa/Podiata/ CRuMs Amorphea/ Amoebozoa Obazoa Breviata Apusomonadida Opisthokonta Unikont Sarcomastigota