Amitochondriate protists: Symbiotic trichomonads of dry-wood-eating termites

Comparative cytological and molecular phylogenetic data suggest that amitochondriate trichomonads (Archaeprotista: Parabasalia) are an early branching lineage of eukaryotes. Prominent in their cells is the karyomastigont, a cytoskeletal organellar system that includes a nucleus, 4–5 kinetosomes, an...

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Main Author: Dolan, Michael Francis
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1999
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9932306