The plasmodial apicoplast was retained under evolutionary selective pressure to assuage blood stage oxidative stress

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 683-690

  Toler, Steven ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIOXIDANT; HEMOGLOBIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; THIOCTIC ACID;

ALGA; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BLOOD; CELL DAMAGE; DEATH; ENDOSYMBIONT; FERMENTATION; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRION; MIXOTROPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; EVOLUTION; ORGANELLES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMODIUM; SELECTION (GENETICS); SYMBIOSIS; THIOCTIC ACID;

ALGAE;

EID: 22544485377     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.05.011     Document Type: Article

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