Heterometopus sp. strain CSS (Q551)

From Protist-Prokaryote Symbiosis Database
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No description defined
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Heterometopus sp. strain CSS
No description defined

    Statements

    two morphotypes observed by TEM, one in cytoplasm close to hydrogenosomes, the other enclosed in vacuoles, but these may be pleiomorphy of same organism. Host is related to Heterometopus palaeformis, which also has methanogens. Genome 2.02 Mbp, not "significantly" reduced compared to free-living congeners, interpreted as a recently acquired symbiont (English)