Reductive Evolution of Apicomplexan Parasites from Phototrophic Ancestors

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/17:00485345

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-61569-1_12" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-61569-1_12</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61569-1_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-61569-1_12</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reductive Evolution of Apicomplexan Parasites from Phototrophic Ancestors

Original language description

Apicomplexans are widespread parasites of animals including humans with an interesting evolutionary history of trophic transitions from predation to photoautotrophy and later loss of photosynthesis. Comparison of extant phototrophic, predatory, and parasitic species revealed how engulfment of an alga constrained cellular biochemistry in the future parasites to a dependence on their non-photosynthetic plastid. Reconstructions of the common ancestor of Apicomplexa point out how complex this organism was as for metabolic repertoire, life cycle, and structural pre-adaptations. This ancestor was supposedly adapted to aerobic and anaerobic environments, predated on other eukaryotes using a flagellum-derived apical complex, and exhibited a complex life cycle to respond to sudden environmental changes. Rather than discovering entirely new features, therefore, apicomplexans arose mainly via reductive evolution of cellular structures and pathways existing in free-living ancestors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Evolutionary Biology: Self/Nonself Evolution, Species and Complex Traits Evolution, Methods and Concepts

ISBN

978-3-319-61569-1

Number of pages of the result

20

Pages from-to

217-236

Number of pages of the book

396

Publisher name

Springer International Publishing

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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