Researchers find the first-known creature that needn’t bother with oxygen to endure
Scientists have found the only known creature that needn't bother with oxygen to endure, a common parasite that to a great extent goes after salmon.
The investigation, published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the parasite Henneguya salminicola doesn't require aerobic respiration to endure — a disclosure that may change how everyone comprehends life on Earth and past.
The multicellular organism, which is part of a group of creatures firmly identified with jellyfish known as the Myxozoa, doesn't inhale at all and doesn't have mitochondrial DNA.
It's the first multicellular creature found in the wild to not have the DNA, which contains the genes liable for breath, and has lost "the ability to perform aerobic cellular respiration...