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That’s all for our acid-loving protist of the week. It truly exemplifies everything heavy metal is about: the power of friendship (or in other words, holobionts). Gather with us for the next #MidweekMicrobe, just like microbes in biofilms! lml 🦠 🍄 🧫.

Notably, an isolate from an AMD site in Canada was found to boost its tolerance to low pH by associating with an antibiotic-producing fungus and an acidophilic bacterium — forming a truly heavy-metal holobiont known as the FAB (fungus, alga, bacterium) consortium.

Some of the mechanisms this alga uses to cope with heavy metals include supplementation of chlorophyll with other divalent cations (in place of Mg²⁺), and internal compartmentalization via precipitation or granule formation. 📷 Adapted from Brake et al.

In addition to being a bioindicator for AMD, E. mutabilis has been reported to grow in biofilms that trap contaminants and help precipitate them into iron-rich stromatolites, limiting their spread downstream. 📷 Adapted from Brake et al.

E. mutabilis is an acidophile that thrives in acid mine drainage (AMD), with optimal growth between pH 3.4 and 5.4. Like other euglenoids, this organism is photosynthetic and has a characteristic red eyespot.

Has it lost its mind? Can it see or is it blind? Don’t worry — we’re not judging anyone. We’re just amazed by the protagonist of this week’s #MidweekMicrobe. Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠 . 📷 Gerd Guenther

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For further insight, check out and. 🦠 🪱. 📷 Yokouchi et al 2022

Morphology wise, P. noduliferae has an overlall flattened shape, transverse surface folds and a flagellar apparatus, which is located at the apical end of the cell and contains two flagella (anterior and posterior) that move in a whip-like motion. 📷 Yokouchi et al 2022

The Platyproteum genus had been formerly assigned to the Apicomplexa, but was later demostrated by Mathur and colleagues that it actually branched off from the base of the chrompodellid taxa and apicomplexan clade. P. noduliferae is sister to P. vivax (Yokouchi et al 2022).

Platyproteum noduliferae is a marine alveolate, discovered in the intestinal tract of the host Phascolosoma noduliferum (a peanut worm🥜🪱 ) in the western coast of Hok kaido, Japan by Yokouchi et al #Midweekmicrobe.📷 Yokouchi et al 2022

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