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Many groups of protists have evolved simplified mitochondria, but for a long time, scientists thought it was impossible for a species to completely lose them. The first eukaryotic organism ...

Protists such as Blastocystis have much larger and more complex genomes than do bacteria — around 20 million base pairs for some Blastocystis subtypes, compared with fewer than 5 million for the ...

Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora. Current Biology, 2024; 34 (2): 451 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.032 ...