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Retortamonad flagellates are closely related to diplomonads - Implications for the history of mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2002

Abstract

We present the first molecular phylogenetic examination of the evolutionary position of retortamonads, a group of mitochondrion-lacking flagellates usually found as commensals of the intestinal tracts of vertebrates. Our phlogenies include small