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Evolution of Chloroplast Transcript Processing in Plasmodium and Its Chromerid Algal Relatives

It is well understood that apicomplexan parasites, such as the malaria pathogen Plasmodium, are descended from free-living algae, and maintain a vestigial chloroplast that has secondarily lost all genes of photosynthetic function. Recently, two fully photosynthetic relatives of parasitic apicomplexa...

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Autores principales: Dorrell, Richard G., Drew, James, Nisbet, R. Ellen R., Howe, Christopher J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24453981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004008