Microsporidia: Biology and evolution of highly reduced intracellular parasites

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 93-116

  Keeling, Patrick J ^a   Fast, Naomi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fungi; Genomics; Infection; Metabolism; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CARBON METABOLISM; CELL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; MICROSPORIDA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CARBON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036406924     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.160854     Document Type: Review

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