Evolution of a morphological novelty occurred before genome compaction in a lineage of extreme parasites

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 15480-15485

  Haag, Karen L ^a,b   James, Timothy Y ^c   Pombert, Jean Franҫois ^d   Larsson, Ronny ^e   Schaer, Tobias M M ^a   Refardt, Dominik ^a,f   Ebert, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Daphnia; Evolution of extreme parasitism; Genome evolution; Microsporidia; Phylogenomics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROSPORIDIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOSPORIDIUM DAPHNIAE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RESTING SPORE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; MICROSPORIDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84908296286     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410442111     Document Type: Article

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