Free-living amoebae are protists frequently found in water and soils. They feed on other
microorganisms, mainly bacteria, and digest them through phagocytosis. It is accepted that …

Arguments based on cell energetics favour the view that a mitochondrion capable of
oxidative phosphorylation was a prerequisite for the evolution of other features of the …

Amoebozoa is the eukaryotic supergroup sister to Obazoa, the lineage that contains the
animals and Fungi, as well as their protistan relatives, and the breviate and apusomonad …

Pelomyxa is a genus of anaerobic amoebae that live in consortia with multiple prokaryotic
endosymbionts. Although the symbionts represent a large fraction of the cellular biomass …

Monophyly of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa, and subdivision into subphyla Conosa and
Lobosa each with different cytoskeletons, are well established. However early diversification …

Of the so-called nonpathogenic intestinal protozoa, Endolimax nana belongs to the ones
least well described. Most data on E. nana have emerged from general surveys of intestinal …

I thoroughly discuss ciliary transition zone (TZ) evolution, highlighting many overlooked
evolutionarily significant ultrastructural details. I establish fundamental principles of TZ …

Background Mitochondria and peroxisomes are the two organelles that are most affected
during adaptation to microoxic or anoxic environments. Mitochondria are known to transform …

Amoebae able to form cytoplasmic networks or displaying a multiply branching morphology
remain very poorly studied. We sequenced the small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene of 15 …

Archamoebae comprises free-living or endobiotic amoebiform protists that inhabit anaerobic
or microaerophilic environments and possess mitochondrion-related organelles (MROs) …