ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Living without oxygen is challenging. To live in low-oxygen environments, some microbes exchange nutrients allowing for a division of labor among individuals in a process called ‘syntrophy’. Such interactions are often a pre-requisite for prokaryotes living in these environments. Whether syntrophy is necessary for the survival of microbial eukaryotes (protists) is unexplored and yet, critically important to discerning the roles of eukaryotes in nature and how eukaryotic cells adapt to live without oxygen. TAngO2 will test the hypothesis that syntrophic partnerships allow eukaryotes to thrive in anaerobic environments and underpin the evolution of key eukaryotic cell biological…
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