Giardia: Highly evolved parasite or early branching eukaryote?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 122-127

  Lloyd, David ^a   Harris, Janine C ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CULTECH LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; ACETYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; ARGININE; ENOLASE; PYROPHOSPHATE; PYRUVATE KINASE;

EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERIAL ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MASTIGOPHORA; PHYLOGENY;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036499107     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02306-5     Document Type: Review

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