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Link to download the original paper in Nature "Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes": http://libgen.io/scimag/ads.php?doi=10.1
by yesenadam 8y ago
Link to download the original paper in Nature "Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes":
http://libgen.io/scimag/ads.php?doi=10.1038%2Fs41586-018-0708-8 http://libgen.io/scimag/ads.php?doi=10.1038%2Fs41586-018-070...
A bit of a let-down after "Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism" to read "Hemimastigotes were first seen and described in the 19th century. ...About 10 species of hemimastigotes have been described over more than 100 years."
- all2 8y agoA description is one thing. What this article describes is a genetic analysis that places a mystery on the rather broken 'tree of life'. Basically they solved a long-running mystery, and it turns out to be stranger than anyone thought.
- wrycoder 8y agoOn the contrary, I read through the open-access paper and went down the rabbit hole for several hours. It’s astonishing that a single celled creature could be so complex. But, it’s had over a billion years to evolve since it split off from the rest of the eucaryotes.
- jhbadger 8y agoMost weird organisms have been noticed long before their genetic weirdness was known. Darwin mentioned in "The Voyage of the Beagle" that a salt lake in South America was reddish due to microbes, but only in the late 20th century did people recognize that these were very unusual microbes -- members of the Archaea.