Impact of a plastid-bearing endocytobiont on apicomplexan genomes

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 427-439

  Sato, S ^a   Tews, I ^a   Wilson, R J M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Biogenesis; Elongation factor Tu; Phylogeny; Plasmodium falciparum; Plastid genome; Structure; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; ELONGATION FACTOR; FOSMIDOMYCIN; MOCIMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

GENOME; PARASITOLOGY;

ALGA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CYANOBACTERIUM; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0034114697     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(99)00185-X     Document Type: Article

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