Newly discovered, free-living eukaryote is the first known to have lost its mitochondria

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Aug 21, 2024, 10:20 am124 pts
An international team of geneticists and molecular biologists has discovered the first-known, free-living eukaryote to have lost its mitochondria. In their study, published in Nature Communications, the group found the eukaryote while investigating the patterns and processes of genome and mitochondrion-related…

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