A mitochondrial remnant in the microsporidian Trachipleistophora hominis

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6900, 2002, Pages 865-869

  Williams, Bryony A P ^a   Hirt, Robert P ^a   Lucocq, John M ^a,b   Embley, T Martin ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNGI; GENES; PROTEINS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

INTRACELLULAR PARASITES; MITOCHONDRIAL REMNANTS;

MICROORGANISMS;

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOSIS; FUNGUS; MICROSPORUM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TRICHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOCYTOSIS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGI; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROSPORIDIA; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORUM; PROTOZOA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS;

EID: 0037158721     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00949     Document Type: Article

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