Analysis of two genomes from the mitochondrion-like organelle of the intestinal parasite Blastocystis: Complete sequences, gene content, and genome organization

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2475-2482

  Pérez Brocal, Vicente ^a   Clark, C Graham ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; Hydrogenosome; Mitochondrion; Mitosome; Reductive evolution; Stramenopile

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; CELL ORGANELLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANELLES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BLASTOCYSTIS; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 54149091260     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn193     Document Type: Article

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