Phylogenetic relationships of fumarase genes from trichomonad species

Abstrakt

The ancestral trichomonad class II fumarase may represent a prokaryotic form that was replaced in other eukaryotes after the divergence of trichomonads with the movement of endosymbiont genes into the nucleus.

Klíčová slova

• Parabasala
• trichomonads
• fumarase
• gene expression
• protein evolution
• molecular phylogeny