Zymodemes expressing possible genetic exchange in Entamoeba histolytica
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 79 (1) , 86-89
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(85)90244-5
Abstract
Entamoeba histolytica was first seen byLÖSCH (1875), and subsequently described by SCHAUDINN 1903. Since that time this organism has only been known to divide by binary fision. Observations at molecular level now reveal possible genetic exchange in this species of amoeba.Keywords
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