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Anaerobic protists before mito

@Chiswick Chap: Under the prevaling version of symbiogenesis, the eukaryote ancestor started off with the mitochondrion. As a result, the "anaerobic protists" can only have occurred by losing their mitochondria; the labelled location is wildly incorrect under this view.

Now for the other views that you may have been influenced by. In the version of the story by Caesar al Jewari and Sandra Baldauf (2023), an archaeon first swallowed a delta or gammaproteobacterium and became what you would call the "anaerobic protists" -- part of the w:Excavata. One of these Excavata guys then swallowed an alphaproteobacterium that became the mitochondrion. It's a pretty good story, not gonna lie -- but it's not the prevailing view for now. Plus, the separation between eukaryote and archaeon was still clearly marked by a endosymbiotic event. Artoria2e5 contribs 13:18, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Normally we'd discuss on Wikipedia not here, ping notwithstanding. I've removed the text label. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:48, 5 December 2024 (UTC)