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Prokaryotic ancestry and gene fusion of a dual localized peroxiredoxin in malaria parasites

Microbial Cell, 2015
Horizontal gene transfer has emerged as a crucial driving force for the evolution of eukaryotes. This also includes Plasmodium falciparum and related economically and clinically relevant apicomplexan parasites, whose rather small genomes have been shaped
Carine F. Djuika, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Jude M. Przyborski, Sophia Deil, Cecilia P. Sanchez, Tobias Doerks, Peer Bork, Michael Lanzer, Marcel Deponte   +8 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Eimeria leuckarti (Eimeriidae, Coccidia, Apicomplexa) infecting domestic horses (Equus ferus caballus)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021
The complete mitochondrial genome of Eimeria leuckarti (Eimeriidae, Coccidia, Apicomplexa) was obtained. This morphologically distinctive coccidium is considered to be the only valid Eimeria species of equids and it infects a range of both domestic and ...
Evelin E. Rejman, Rosann Kehoe, John R. Barta   +2 more
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Meat-Borne-Parasite: A Nanopore-Based Meta-Barcoding Work-Flow for Parasitic Microbiodiversity Assessment in the Wild Fauna of French Guiana

Current Issues in Molecular Biology
French Guiana, located in the Guiana Shield, is a natural reservoir for many zoonotic pathogens that are of considerable medical or veterinary importance.
Adria Matoute, Simone Maestri, Mona Saout, Laure Laghoe, Stéphane Simon, Hélène Blanquart, Miguel Angel Hernandez Martinez, Magalie Pierre Demar   +7 more
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Chronic Cystoisospora belli infection in a Colombian patient living with HIV and poor adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2021
Cystoisospora belli is an intestinal Apicomplexan parasite associated with diarrheal illness and disseminated infections in humans, mainly immunocompromised individuals such as those living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired ...
Ana Luz Galván-Díaz, Juan Carlos Alzate, Esteban Villegas, Sofía Giraldo, Jorge Botero, Gisela García-Montoya   +5 more
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Studies on coccidian oocysts (Apicomplexa: Eucoccidiorida) [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2014
The oocysts of the coccidia are robust structures, frequently isolated from the feces or urine of their hosts, which provide resistance to mechanical damage and allow the parasites to survive and remain infective for prolonged periods. The diagnosis of coccidiosis, species description and systematics, are all dependent upon characterization of the ...
Berto, Bruno Pereira, McIntosh, Douglas, Lopes, Carlos Wilson Gomes   +2 more
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Post‐LECA Origin and Diversification of an Axonemal Outer Arm Dynein Motor

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dyneins were present in the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) and play key roles in eukaryotic biology. Axonemal dyneins form the inner and outer arms that power ciliary beating, and it has long been recognized that outer arms in some organisms contain two different heavy chain motors, whereas those from other species contain a third unit
Stephen M. King
wiley   +1 more source

Repurposing of conserved autophagy-related protein ATG8 in a divergent eukaryote

Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2016
Toxoplasma gondii and other apicomplexan parasites contain a peculiar non-photosynthetic plastid called the apicoplast, which is essential for their survival.
Maude F. Lévêque, Hoa Mai Nguyen, Sébastien Besteiro   +2 more
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Discovery of an Atypical Arp2/3 Complex in Malaria Parasites Sheds New Light on Nuclear Actin

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Arp2/3 complex is a key actin nucleator essential for cytoskeletal dynamics in eukaryotes. Previously believed absent in apicomplexan parasites, we recently identified an atypical Arp2/3 complex in malaria parasites consisting of five divergent subunits and a putative kinetochore‐associated factor.
Franziska Hentzschel, Friedrich Frischknecht, Matthias Marti   +2 more
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Clinical, laboratory and epidemiological aspects of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis infection: a integrative review [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis infection causes cryptosporidiosis, which in humans can result in watery diarrhea that is usually self-limited in immunocompetent individuals, but can be chronic and fatal in immunocompromised ...
R. L. M. Mendonça, M. S. Miranda, A. C. Guimarães, A. P. Queiroga, H. F. M. Câmara, P. H. L. T. S. Anjos, J. V. Ferro, H. B. G. Messias, T. L. G. Q. Maranhão, A. C. S. Omena, A. C. Silva, C. J. Santos Júnior, B. C. Omena, M. G. S. Cavalcanti, T. J. M. Rocha, G. C. Ferreira Júnior   +15 more
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The Genus Hepatozoon (Apicomplexa: Adeleina) [PDF]

The Journal of Parasitology, 1996
Hemogregarines of the genus Hepatozoon are intraerythrocytic apicomplexan parasites that have been described from all groups of tetrapod vertebrates. Gametogenesis, fertilization, and sporogonic development, which culminates in the formation of polysporocystic oocysts, occur in the gut or hemocoel of a hematophagous arthropod definitive host. Merogonic
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