“…Scientific literature (Coulombe, Bousquet, Ma, Yamada, & Wirtz, 2000;Gruenbaum & Foisner, 2015;Herrmann & Strelkov, 2011;Kim & Coulombe, 2007;Kornreich, Avinery, Malka-Gibor, Laser-Azogui, & Beck, 2015;Melcer, Gruenbaum, & Krohne, 2007) as well as current teaching material (Alberts et al, 2015;Lodish et al, 2016), tell us that bona fide IF proteins are restricted to metazoans. For protists, which are about a billion years older than metazoans (Shu, Isozaki, Zhang, Han, & Maruyama, 2014;Suzuki & Oba, 2015) and make up the remaining phylogenetic diversity of eukaryotes, no apparent homologs to any of the metazoan IF protein familiesexcept for lamin (Kollmar, 2015;Koreny & Field, 2016), but more on that later-have been identified. Why?…”