Multiple acquisition of methanogenic archaeal symbionts by anaerobic ciliates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-258

  Van Hoek, Angela H A M ^a   Van Alen, Theo A ^a   Sprakel, Vera S I ^a   Leunissen, Jack A M ^a   Brigge, Theo ^b   Vogels, Godfried D ^a   Hackstein, Johannes H P ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c Dept of Microbiol and Evol Biol ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaerobic ciliates; Coevolution; Endosymbiont replacement; Hydrogenosomes; Methanogenic archaea; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; HYDROGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CILIATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ARCHAEA; CILIOPHORA; CLEVELANDELLIDAE;

EID: 0033967816     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026304     Document Type: Article

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