Fancy a gene? A surprisingly complex evolutionary history of peroxiredoxins.

Authors:

Alena Zíková1,2, Miroslav Oborník1,2,3 and Julius Lukeš1,2,4

doi: 10.15698/mic2015.02.189
Volume 2, pp. 33 to 37, published 28/01/2015.

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Affiliations:

1 Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, 370 05 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.

2 Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 370 05 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.

3 Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic.

4 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto ON, M5G 1Z8, Canada.

Keywords: 

horizontal gene transfer, Apicomplexa, endosymbiont, Plasmodium, Chromera, peroxiredoxin, oxidative stress

Corresponding Author(s):

Alena Zíková, Institute of Parasitology, Branišovská 31; 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic. azikova@paru.cas.cz

Conflict of interest statement:

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Please cite this article as:

Alena Zíková, Miroslav Oborník and Julius Lukeš (2015). Fancy a gene? A surprisingly complex evolutionary history of peroxiredoxins. Microbial Cell 2(2): 33-37.

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Abstract:

In this comment, the authors discuss the article “Prokaryotic ancestry and gene fusion of a dual localized peroxiredoxin in malaria parasites” (Djuika et al., Microbial Cell 2015).