The symbiosis between termites and their hindgut protists is mutually obligate and vertically
inherited. It was established by the late Jurassic in the cockroach ancestors of termites as …

The burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing, posing a serious threat to human
health. Cardiovascular calcification (CVC) is one of the most common manifestations of …

Monocercomonoides exilis is the first known amitochondriate eukaryote. Loss of
mitochondria in M. exilis ocurred after the replacement of the essential mitochondrial iron …

The notion that mitochondria cannot be lost was shattered with the report of an oxymonad
Monocercomonoides exilis, the first eukaryote arguably without any mitochondrion. Yet …

Metamonads are a large and exclusively anaerobic group of protists. Additionally, they are
one of the three clades proposed to ancestrally possess an “excavate” cell morphology, with …

Mitochondria are found, with rare exceptions [1, 2], in the vast majority of the cells of
eukaryotic organisms, where they perform several essential functions ranging from the …