Streblomastix Explained

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

Motility

Streblomastix moves by beating its anterior flagella.

Morphology

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

References

• http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar03/rhtermite.html
• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/basalprotists.html

Notes and 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 . en . 116 . 39 . 19675–19684 . 10.1073/pnas.1910793116 . free . 0027-8424 . 6765251 . 31492817. 2019PNAS..11619675T .
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 . en . 169 . 5 . 744–783 . 10.1016/j.protis.2018.06.005. 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. . Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria . PLOS Genetics . en . 19 . 12 . e1011050 . 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050 . free . 1553-7404 . 10703272 . 38060519.