Apicomplexan parasites constitute more than 6,000 species infecting a wide range of hosts.
These include important pathogens such as those causing malaria and toxoplasmosis. Their …

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic protist pathogen that infects up to one third of the human
population. This apicomplexan parasite contains three genome sequences: nuclear (65 Mb); …

Mitochondrial respiratory chain Complex III, also known as cytochrome bc 1 complex or cyt
bc 1, is a validated target not only for antibiotics but also for pesticides and anti-parasitic …

Endosymbiotic organelles, such as mitochondria and plastids, contain own remnant
genomes (nucleoids), whose variable abundance in cells may be adaptive to the …

The mitochondrial genomes of apicomplexans comprise merely three protein-coding genes,
alongside a set of thirty to forty genes encoding small RNAs (sRNAs), many of which exhibit …

In recent phylogenetic studies, bat Polychromophilus and ungulate Plasmodium, two
relatively understudied haemosporidian parasites within the Apicomplexa phylum, have …

Mitochondrial genomes of apicomplexans, dinoflagellates, and chrompodellids that
collectively make up the Myzozoa, encode only three proteins (Cytochrome b [COB] …

Although recognized earlier as subcellular entities by microscopists, mitochondria have
been the subject of functional studies since 1922, when their biochemical similarities with …

Extreme functional reduction of mitochondria has taken place in parallel in many distantly
related lineages of eukaryotes, leading to a number of recurring metabolic states with …

Mitochondria originated from an ancient endosymbiotic event involving an
alphaproteobacterium. Over time, these organelles reduced their gene content massively …