Euglena is a genus of single-celled, free-living, freshwater-dwelling organisms that contain chloroplasts and show both plant-like and animal-like characteristics. Keywords: algae; protozoa; chloroplast; medical use; bioremediationdoi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0001964.pub3Dennis E Buetow...
Euglena have been studied for many years due to their ease of culture and combination of plant and animal like characteristics (Fig. 10.1). Euglena gracilis in particular has been of great interest in the development of biochemistry and cellular biology (Buetow, 1968a, b, c, 1989). A wide...
Locomotion is generally a characteristic of animals. However, some plantlike protists move about by means of flagella. What is the adaptive advantage of a photosynthetic organism that is able to move from place to place? What characteristics do fungus-like protists have? Select t...
A plant-like plastid targeting signal (transit peptide) is essential for plastid import, implying the presence of a TIC/TOC-like path- way (Slavikova et al., 2005). However, in silico analysis of the E. gracilis and Euglena longa transcriptomes identified few TIC sub- unit homologues,...
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“euglenids” addresses the whole group of organisms of various nutritional strategies. Theeuglenophyteswere one of the first protists to be discovered and described. The first documented observation of aneuglenophyte, presumably the genusEuglena, and description of its typical slime-like mode of ...
Is Euglena a plant or animal? Euglena are neither plants nor animals despite the fact that they have characteristics of both. Given that they cannot be groups under either the plant or the animal kingdom, Euglena, like many other similar single celled organisms are classified under the Kingdom...
Previous tran- scriptome studies reported the presence of pan-eukaryotic genes and cohorts shared with kineto- plastids and plants [17, 19], but these were not analyzed in detail, and specifically did not determine which plant taxa were acting as potential gene donors. This is im- portant in...
(NPC) is well conserved across most lineages, orthologs for DBP5 and Gle1, two proteins involved in mRNA export in mammalian, yeast and plant NPCs, but absent from trypanosomes, are present. This is consistent with an earlier proposal that the absence of DBP5/Gle1 is connected to the ...
Euglena exhibits both plant- and animal-like characteristics: it can live in light, sustaining itself autotrophically through photosynthesis; or it can survive heterotrophically in the dark, using nutrients from the environment. Despite being considered colloquially as a green alga, Euglena is ...