Single-celled #protists in the guts of #animals thrive without the powerhouse of the cell: #Genomic analysis suggests the oxymonad lineage lost their #mitochondria about 100 million years ago https://www.isep-protists.com/post/genomics-of-preaxostyla

New #ISEPpapers! #Genomics of #Preaxostyla #Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050

#microbes #evolution #organelles #eukaryotes #bioinformatics #science #biology #discovery