Parasite plastids: maintenance and functions.

Malaria and related parasites retain a vestigial, but biosynthetically active, plastid organelle acquired far back in evolution from a red algal cell. The organelle appears to be essential for parasite transmission from cell to cell and carries the smallest known plastid genome. Why has this genome...

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Main Authors: Wilson, R J M Iain, Rangachari, K, Saldanha, J W, Rickman, L, Buxton, R S, Eccleston, J F
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2003
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693094/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12594924
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2002.1187
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