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The "fungus like" organism in a mutualistic relationship with bacteria is evocative of the structure and life style of the pre- or proto-eukaryotic Lokiarchaeot
by AprilArcus 5y ago
The "fungus like" organism in a mutualistic relationship with bacteria is evocative of the structure and life style of the pre- or proto-eukaryotic Lokiarchaeota recently cultured and imaged by Hiroyuki Imachi et al.
"Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface". Nature. 577 (7791): 519–525. Bibcode:2020Natur.577..519I. bioRxiv 10.1101/726976. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1916-6. PMC 7015854. PMID 31942073.