Mitochondrial remnant organelles of Giardia function in iron-sulphur protein maturation

Abstract

Our results indicate that Giardia is not primitively amitochondrial and that it has retained a functional organelle derived from the original mitochondrial endosymbiont.

Keywords

• PARASITE ENTAMOEBA-HISTOLYTICA
• TRICHOMONAS-VAGINALIS
• LAMBLIA
• HYDROGENOSOMES
• INTESTINALIS
• EUKARYOTES
• GENE
• GENOME
• PHYLOGENY
• EVOLUTION