Streblomastix

Streblomastix
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Metamonada
Class:	Anaeromonadea
Order:	Oxymonadida
Family:	Polymastigidae
Genus:	Streblomastix; Kofoid & Swezy 1920
Type species
	Streblomastix strix; Kofoid & Swezy 1920
Species
	S. strix;

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

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Streblomastix moves by beating its anterior flagella.

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

[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. 116 (39): 19675–19684. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11619675T. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910793116. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 6765251. PMID 31492817.
[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. 169 (5): 744–783. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2018.06.005. PMID 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. (ed.). "Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria". PLOS Genetics. 19 (12): e1011050. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050. ISSN 1553-7404. PMC 10703272. PMID 38060519.

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