Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters

Euglenoids have had a very, very long time to evolve, and that has led to the things they have evolved into being extremely diverse—so diverse that, combined with the varied shape-shifting abilities of its member species, euglenoids have proven challenging to both identify and classify Support Journey to the Microcosmos on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicro Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4UedbiTeN96izf-CxEPbg Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music by Andrew Huang: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhuang Journey to the Microcosmos is a Complexly production. Find out more at https://www.complexly.com Sources: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/44/17874.short https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123858764000104 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0053433 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1265905/ http://tolweb.org/Euglenida/97461 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22081035 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2216/09-112.1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123858764000104 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X03000171 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Sensitivity-of-Different-Endpoints-in-Euglena-to-H%C3%A4der-Muhammad/f8898833e6989f14c63860ba3d2d8dbd7b7abf3a https://www.limnology-journal.org/articles/limn/abs/2000/02/limno20002p83/limno20002p83.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123858764000104 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0932473916300839 https://www.livescience.com/54242-protists.html http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3694#targetText=Euglena%20do%20photosynthesis%20using%20the,is%20because%20they%20are%20unicellular. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2015.00098/full