Definition of Apicoplasts. Meaning of Apicoplasts. Synonyms of Apicoplasts

- malaria. Because apicoplasts are vital to parasite survival, they provide an enticing target for antimalarial drugs. Specifically, apicoplasts' plant-like...
- represents a diverse and novel lineage of the Apicomplexa that has retained apicoplasts. Genome Biol Evol Moore RB; Oborník M; Janouskovec J; Chrudimský T; Vancová...
- Apicomplexa, a group of closely related parasites, also have plastids called apicoplasts, which are not photosynthetic, but appear to have a common origin with...
- leucoplasts (non-pigmented plastids some of which can differentiate); and apicoplasts (non-photosynthetic plastids of apicomplexa derived from secondary endosymbiosis)...
- the apicoplast, is derived from a secondary endosymbiosis event, in this case the acquisition of a red alga by the Plasmodium ancestor. The apicoplast is...
- parasites contain apicoplasts, organelles related to the plastids found in plants, complete with their own genomes. These apicoplasts are thought to have...
- Hydrogenosome Plastid Chloroplast Chromoplast Gerontoplast Leucoplast Apicoplast Kappa organism Organs Bacteriome Trophosome Abiogenesis Last universal...
- protein production. It kills malaria by targeting a plastid organelle, the apicoplast. Doxycycline was patented in 1957 and came into commercial use in 1967...
- subpellicular vesicles and a complete apical complex, non-photosynthetic apicoplast. over 6,000 Apusozoa (paraphyletic) Apusomonas-like animals Gliding biciliates...
- Hydrogenosome Plastid Chloroplast Chromoplast Gerontoplast Leucoplast Apicoplast Kappa organism Organs Bacteriome Trophosome Abiogenesis Last universal...