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Let me introduce you to the Anaeramoebae. This was a fun collaboration with Petr Táborský, @EricSalomaki @eme_laura @kolecko007, Tomas Panek, @jon_hultqvist,Miluše Hradilová,Čestmír Vlček, @andrewjroger Ivan Cepicka. Out now in @CurrentBiology. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Anaermoebae were discovered a couple years ago by Petr, Tomas and Ivan. These #protists were isolated from #anaerobic marine environments. At the time, it was difficult to place these cute critters on the tree of life. see: 10.1016/j.protis.2017.07.005
We sequenced the transcriptomes of two species of Anaeramoeba allowing us to perform phylogenomics. To our surprise, we found this anaerobic amoeba is actually a metmonad! Metamonads include pathogens like #Giardia and #Trichomonas that often have weird anaerobic mitochondria.
