Streblomastix

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Streblomastix
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Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Metamonada
Class: Anaeromonadea
Order: Oxymonadida
Family: Polymastigidae
Genus: Streblomastix
Kofoid & Swezy 1920
Type species
Streblomastix strix
Kofoid & Swezy 1920
Species
  • S. strix

A symbiotic eukaryote that lives in the hindgut of termites, Streblomastix is a protist associated with a community of ectosymbiotic bacteria. [1] [2]

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Motility

Streblomastix moves by beating its anterior flagella.

Morphology

These protists measure around 100 micrometers in length. They completely lack mitochondria. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Treitli, Sebastian C.; Kolisko, Martin; Husník, Filip; Keeling, Patrick J.; Hampl, Vladimír (2019-09-24). "Revealing the metabolic capacity of Streblomastix strix and its bacterial symbionts using single-cell metagenomics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (39): 19675–19684. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11619675T. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1910793116 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   6765251 . PMID   31492817.
  2. ↑ Treitli, Sebastian C.; Kotyk, Michael; Yubuki, Naoji; Jirounková, Eliška; Vlasáková, Jitka; Smejkalová, Pavla; Šípek, Petr; Čepička, Ivan; Hampl, Vladimír (November 2018). "Molecular and Morphological Diversity of the Oxymonad Genera Monocercomonoides and Blattamonas gen. nov". Protist. 169 (5): 744–783. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2018.06.005. PMID   30138782.
  3. ↑ Novák, Lukáš V. F.; Treitli, Sebastian C.; Pyrih, Jan; Hałakuc, Paweł; Pipaliya, Shweta V.; Vacek, Vojtěch; Brzoň, Ondřej; Soukal, Petr; Eme, Laura; Dacks, Joel B.; Karnkowska, Anna; Eliáš, Marek; Hampl, Vladimír (2023-12-07). Dutcher, Susan K. (ed.). "Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria". PLOS Genetics. 19 (12): e1011050. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050 . ISSN   1553-7404. PMC   10703272 . PMID   38060519.
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