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Mixotricha paradoxa is a species of protozoan that lives inside the gut of the Australian termite species Mastotermes darwiniensis[1] and has multiple bacterial symbionts.[2] The name, given by the Australian biologist J.L. Sutherland, who first described Mixotricha in 1933,[3][4] means “the paradoxical being with mixed-up hairs”.
Mixotricha forms many symbiotic relationships. Like its relatives, including Trichonympha, it lives in the gut of termites and helps them digest cellulose, a major component of the wood they eat. Without Mixotricha, its host termites could not survive.
Mixotricha forms hydrogenosomes which produce hydrogen and small structures called mitosomes. [5]
According to Margulis and Sagan (2001), Mixotricha have five symbiogenesis. Hunt et al. (2001, 2002) also consider it a composite organism with five genomes.
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