Evolutionary status of Entamoeba

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 1847-1853

  Dong, Jiuhong ^a,b   Wen, Jianfan ^a   Xin, Dedong ^a,b   Lu, Siqi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entamoeba; Evolutionary status; Mitochondrion; Mitosome; Molecular phylogenetic analyses

Indexed keywords

ARCHEZOA; ENTAMOEBA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33749677661     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04wc0103     Document Type: Article

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