Date: 30.01.2017

Annual report CIFAR

Integrated microbial biodiversity

Read about program "Integrated microbial biodiversity" - pages 44-45 Annual report 2015/16 CIFAR 

A CIFAR-supported collaboration between their trainees helped CIFAR fellows John Archibald (Dalhousie University) and Julius Lukeš (Czech Academy of Sciences) to complete a genomic and microscopybased exploration of an enigmatic, singlecelled ‘kinetoplastid’ endosymbiont living inside a common marine amoeba. They discovered that the kinetoplastid sustains itself by ‘drinking’ the interior liquid of the amoeba in which it resides. This type of endosymbiont-host connectivity has never been previously observed, and provides expanded knowledge of the complex ways in which single-celled microbes interact in the context of endosymbiosis.

> Cenci U., Moog D., Curtis B.A., Tanifuji G., Eme L., Lukeš J., Archibald J.M. 2016: Heme pathway evolution in kinetoplastid protists. BMC Evol Biol. 16: 109.

 

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