Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria.

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"This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 771592 to VH) and the Centre for research of pathogenicity and virulence of parasites (registration no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000759). Research in Karnkowska lab was supported by EMBO Installation Grant 4150 and Ministry of Education and Science, Poland and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) University of Warsaw under computational allocation no. G 72-16. Research in the Dacks Lab is supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (RES0021028, RES0043758, and RES0046091) and SVP received salary support through Alberta Innovates Graduate Studentship (Doctoral) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canada Graduate Scholarships. LE was supported by an ERC Starting grant (803151). ME was supported by the Czech Science Foundation project 22-29633S. LVFN, SCT, JP, VV, OB, PS, and VH received a salary from ERC (771592). ME received a salary from the Czech Science Foundation (22-29633S). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."