The hydrogenosome is a crucial organelle for some organisms that inhabit oxygen-poor environments, protists such as some free-living ciliates, unicellular parasites, termite flagellates and rumen fungi and rumen ciliates (Figs. 22.3 and 22.7). These organisms lack conventional mitochondria (Figs. 22.1 and 22.2).
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