Biologists have discovered that a tiny parasite of salmon called “Henneguya salminicola” has no mitochondrial genome and thus has lost the ability to perform aerobic respiration. In the absence of oxygen, the mitochondria of these organisms have lost all or parts of their genomes and evolved into mitochondria-related organelles.

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