is an early diverging eukaryote. This is supported by several features: their lack of ATP-synthesizing mitochondria (see Characteristics) and other organelles, their primitive metabolic pathways, and their position in a phylogenetic tree.

Genome

A Giardia isolate (WB, AI genotype) was the first diplomonad to have its genome sequenced. Its almost 12 million basepair-long genome

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