The plastid in Apicomplexa: What use is it?

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1053-1070

  Gleeson, Michelle T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Drug treatment; Neospora; Phylogeny; Plasmodium; Plastid; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

AMYTHIAMYCIN; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CIRCULAR DNA; CLINDAMYCIN; ENACYLOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; FOSMIDOMYCIN; GE 2270A; HERBICIDE; MOCIMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBOSOME RNA; RIFAMPICIN; RNA; TETRACYCLINE; THIOSTREPTON; TOTRAZURIL; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE; TROVAFLOXACIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; DRUG THERAPY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; NEOSPORA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; PLASTIDS;

EID: 0033843861     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(00)00100-4     Document Type: Review

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