Cryptosporidium parvum appears to lack a plastid genome

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 315-321

  Zhu, Guan ^a   Marchewka, Mary J ^a   Keithly, Janet S ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicoplast; Chloroplast; Cryptosporidium parvum; Plastid genome

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EIMERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGLENA GRACILIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ALLIUM STELLATUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA BOVIS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPINACIA OLERACEA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0033965297     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-2-315     Document Type: Article

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