The mother of all parasites

Future Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 391-395

  Okamoto, Noriko ^a,b   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apicoplast; Chromera velia; Endosymbiosis; Malaria; Plasmodium; Plastid evolution; Toxoplasma; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE;

APICOMPLEXA; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CORAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRUG TARGETING; GREEN ALGA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED ALGA; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; APICOMPLEXA; CHLOROPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PROTISTA; RHODOPHYTA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 48649099862     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.3.4.391     Document Type: Article

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