"Because Proteromonas is a member of the sister lineage to Blastocystis, structurally a more typical stramenopile, and yet is also a member of the anoxic animal intestinal microbiome, we have investigated the genome and cell biology of P. lacertae to better understand the reductive evolution and genomic peculiarities accompanying the transformation of Blastocystis into the highly divergent but dominant member of the protistan community in the human and animal gut #microbiome today."

#Evolution #symbiosis

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00620-6