New #ISEPpaper! On the possibility of yet a third #kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.02936-24 by Corinna Benz et al.

"While #kinetoplastids have an unconventional kinetochore system and #euglenids have a canonical one similar to traditional model #eukaryotes, preliminary searches detected neither unconventional nor canonical kinetochore components in #diplonemids."

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #CellBiology

Unicellular eukaryotes called Euglenids that aren't animal, vegetable, mineral, bacterium or fungi but are a bizarre fusion of life - they gain energy through both photosynthesis AND consuming other beings 🤯

https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-fossils-are-neither-plant-nor-animal-but-a-weird-fusion-of-life

#science #fossils #euglenids #ScienceNews #botany #biology #paleontology

Parasite of the Day: Euglenaformis parasitica
http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/12/euglenaformis-parasitica.html

"#Euglena and its kin are mostly free-living, photosynthesizing when the sun's out, absorbing organic matter from the environment when it's dark. But the ancestor of E. parasitica was not content with this mostly peaceful lifestyle, and has evolved to live inside the body of #animals. These #euglenids were found parasitising #ostracods & #flatworms in a rice field in #Ibaraki, #Japan."

#protists #algae #parasites #microbes