Monophyly of endosymbiont containing trypanosomatids: Phylogeny versus taxonomy

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-297

  Hollar, Laura ^a   Lukeš, Julius ^b   Maslov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Crithidia oncopelti; Endosymbiont; Herpetomonas roitmani; Kinetoplast DNA; Kinetoplastida; Minicircles; Phylogeny; Taxonomy; Trypanosomat idae

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; KINETOPLAST DNA; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL RNA; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY; TRYPANOSOMATID;

BLASTOCRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA ONCOPELTI; HERPETOMONAS ROITMANI; KINETOPLASTIDA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0032077626     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1998.tb04539.x     Document Type: Article

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