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| | Excavate Monograph Online |
 | | giardiasis, and several metamonad species that cause, or are associated with, various illnesses in animals. |
 | | The excavates may be among the most ancient of living eukaryotes. |
 | | The jakobids, especially Reclinomonas americana, have the most eubacterial-like mitochondrial genomes of any eukaryotes that have been studied, while metamonads such as Giardia lack many of the cell structures ("organelles"), including mitochondria, that are considered typical for eukaryotic cells. |
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