HAVE MALARIA PARASITES 3 GENOMES

被引:70
作者
WILSON, RJM [1 ]
GARDNER, MJ [1 ]
FEAGIN, JE [1 ]
WILLIAMSON, DH [1 ]
机构
[1] SEATTLE BIOMED RES INST, SEATTLE, WA 98109 USA
来源
PARASITOLOGY TODAY | 1991年 / 7卷 / 06期
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1016/0169-4758(91)90276-T
中图分类号
R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
Recent efforts to define the mitochondrial genome of malaria parasites have uncovered an unexpected complexity: there are two almost totally dissimilar organellar DNA molecules. Iain Wilson, Malcolm Gardner, Jean Feagin and Donald Williamson discuss the surprising possibility that Plasmodium may have, in addition to the nuclear genome, two unrelated organellar genomes, one evidently mitochondrial and the other of unknown function.
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页码:134 / 136
页数:3
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