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This isn't that uncommon, it's just really hard for it to survive into reproduction. Protists are notorious for it, this one alone has at least three separate bacterial symbiotes and even replaced it's own mitochondria(which themselves are endosymbiotic bacteria) with another bacteria, essentially reinventing the fucking wheel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixotricha_paradoxa