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SUBMITTER: Cenci U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4870792 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cenci Ugo U Moog Daniel D Curtis Bruce A BA Tanifuji Goro G Eme Laura L Lukeš Julius J Archibald John M JM
BMC evolutionary biology 20160518 1
<h4>Background</h4>Kinetoplastea is a diverse protist lineage composed of several of the most successful parasites on Earth, organisms whose metabolisms have coevolved with those of the organisms they infect. Parasitic kinetoplastids have emerged from free-living, non-pathogenic ancestors on multiple occasions during the evolutionary history of the group. Interestingly, in both parasitic and free-living kinetoplastids, the heme pathway-a core metabolic pathway in a wide range of organisms-is inc ...[more]