The first suicides: A legacy inherited by parasitic protozoans from prokaryote ancestors

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Taylor Brown, Emilie ^a,b   Hurd, Hilary ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Leishmania; Origin of apoptosis; Parasitic protozoa; Plasmodium; Programmed cell death; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; ENDONUCLEASE G; NUCLEASE; PROTEINASE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARCHAEON; LEISHMANIA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PROKARYOTE; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

APICOMPLEXA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LEISHMANIA; MITOCHONDRIA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84876173871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-108     Document Type: Review

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