Diversity and evolution of a canonical mitochondrion-lacking protist group, Fornicata

蚁兽是一种微需氧或厌氧鞭毛虫类群，其多样性已被环境DNA分析所揭示。所有的私通生物的细胞结构进行了研究，直到最近没有典型的线粒体有氧呼吸，而是减少线粒体，这表明私通是一个适当的模型系统，以了解细胞的线粒体还原过程的演变。然而，由于仍然有一些已经在实验室中分离和培养的私通生物，我们试图通过探索自然环境来建立新的私通生物培养物。在本项目中，我们建立了10多个新的微需氧或厌氧真核生物的培养，包括几个fornicates，我们描述了其中的一部分。

Fornicates are a micro aerophilic or anaerobic flagellate group of which diversity has been revealed by environmental DNA analyses. All fornicate organisms whose cellular structures were investigated up to recently have no canonical mitochondria with aerobic respiration, but instead have reduced mitochondria, suggesting that fornicates are an appropriate model system to understand cellular evolution of the reducing process of mitochondria. However, since there still are a few fornicate organisms which have already been isolated and cultured in laboratories, we tried to establish novel cultures for fornicate organisms by exploring natural environments. In this project, we established more than 10 novel cultures for micro aerophilic or anaerobic eukaryotic organisms including several fornicates, and we described a part of them.