Gàlvez-Morante, Berney & Richter report the discovery of a novel lineage within Amoebozoa with intriguing behaviors like the “double-amoeba” and suggest that retention of gene function composition played a key role in shaping Amoebozoa evolution.
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Abstract. Metazoa and Fungi have been extensively studied to reconstruct the trajectory of Opisthokont evolution. Their sister group, Amoebozoa, provides a
