Industry articleAuthors : Diaz, Priscila Peña (2023)
Monocercomonoides exilis is the first eukaryotic organism described as a complete amitochondriate,24
yet it shares common features with heterotrophic anaerobic/microaerophilic protists, some of which25
bear divergent mitochondrion-related organelles or MROs. It has been postulated that the retention26
of these organelles stems from their involvement in the assembly of essential cytosolic and nuclear27
FeS proteins, whose maturation requires the evolutionarily conse... 
