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We gratefully acknowledge the permission to use genome sequence data of Trichomonas provided by The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) with funding of the NIH/NIAID. We thank Uwe Maier, Martin Schlegel and Louis Tielens for critical reading, and Alan Schwartz for improving the phrasing.

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  2. Department of Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str., 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Joachim Tjaden

  3. Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences (NCMLS) and Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Toernooiveld 1, 6525, ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Martijn Huynen

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Hackstein, J.H.P., Tjaden, J. & Huynen, M. Mitochondria, hydrogenosomes and mitosomes: products of evolutionary tinkering!. Curr Genet 50, 225–245 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-006-0088-8

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