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SUBMITTER: Roger AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC26183 | biostudies-literature | 1996 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roger A J AJ Clark C G CG Doolittle W F WF
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19961201 25
Trichomonads are anaerobic flagellated protists that, based on analyses of ribosomal RNA sequences, represent one of the earliest branching lineages among the eukaryotes. The absence of mitochondria in these organisms coupled with their deep phylogenetic position has prompted several authors to suggest that trichomonads, along with other deeply-branching amitochondriate protist groups, diverged from the main eukaryotic lineage prior to the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria. In this report we ...[more]