Mitosomes of Entamoeba histolytica are abundant mitochondrion-related remnant organelles that lack a detectable organellar genome

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1245-1250

  Léon Avila, Gloria ^a,b   Tovar, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

EID: 2942532388     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26923-0     Document Type: Article

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