RT @KDumack@twitter.com

Do you know #Leptogromia? This #marine #amoeba was found to be the closest relative of the clade comprising the scale-bearing #Euglypha, #Paulinella, #Trinema, and #Assulina. Leptogromia lacks scales and, in general, has an interesting morphology. Read: https://tinyurl.com/sdh9szw2

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KDumack/status/1598626270090338304

Exciting hypothesis and ideas on plastid evolution by @DebashB et al.!👇🏻

“Endosymbiotic ratchet accelerates divergence after organelle origin—The #Paulinella model for plastid evolution”
🔗 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202200165