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Anaerobic endosymbiont generates energy for ciliate host by denitrification. <i>Nature (Lond.) 591(7850)</i>: 445-450. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03297-6\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03297-6</a>","BEntID":331497,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Nature (Lond.) 591(7850)</i>: 445-450. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03297-6\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03297-6</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Graf, J.S.; Schorn, S.; Kitzinger, K.; Ahmerkamp, S.; Woehle, C.; Huettel, B.; Schubert, C.J.; Kuypers, M.M.; Milucka, J.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Graf, J.S. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Mitochondria are specialized eukaryotic organelles that have a dedicated function in oxygen respiration and energy production. They evolved about  billion years ago from a free-living bacterial ancestor (probably an alphaproteobacterium), in a process known as endosymbiosis. Many unicellular eukaryotes have since adapted to life in anoxic habitats and their mitochondria have undergone further reductive evolution. As a result, obligate anaerobic eukaryotes with mitochondrial remnants derive their energy mostly from fermentation. Here we describe ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Azoamicus ciliaticola’, which is an obligate endosymbiont of an anaerobic ciliate and has a dedicated role in respiration and providing energy for its eukaryotic host. ‘<i>Candidatus</i> A. ciliaticola’ contains a highly reduced 0.29-Mb genome that encodes core genes for central information processing, the electron transport chain, a truncated tricarboxylic acid cycle, ATP generation and iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis. 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