Kinetoplast DNA network: Evolution of an improbable structure

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 495-502

  Lukeš, Julius ^a,b   Guilbride, D Lys ^a,f   Votýpka, Jan ^a,c   Zíková, Alena ^a,b   Benne, Rob ^d   Englund, Paul T ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA;

ANIMAL; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; DNA, KINETOPLAST; EVOLUTION; KINETOPLASTIDA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHYLOGENY; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0036691852     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.4.495-502.2002     Document Type: Short Survey

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