This article describes some of the milestones in research concerned with protozoan
parasites of the genus Eimeria that infect birds and cause the disease coccidiosis. The time …

Discovery of a relict chloroplast (the apicoplast) in malarial parasites presented new
opportunities for drug development. The apicoplast–although no longer photosynthetic–is …

The apicomplexan Cryptosporidium parvum is an intestinal parasite that affects healthy
humans and animals, and causes an unrelenting infection in immunocompromised …

The discovery of a nonphotosynthetic plastid in malaria and other apicomplexan parasites
has sparked a contentious debate about its evolutionary origin. Molecular data have led to …

Coccidiosis is a widespread and economically significant disease of livestock caused by
protozoan parasites of the genus Eimeria. This disease is worldwide in occurrence and …

By synthesizing data from individual gene phylogenies, large concatenated gene trees, and
other kinds of molecular, morphological, and biochemical markers, we begin to see the …

Summary Between 1 and 1.5 billion years ago [1, 2], eukaryotic organisms acquired the
ability to convert light into chemical energy through endosymbiosis with a Cyanobacterium …

Babesia bovis is an apicomplexan tick-transmitted pathogen of cattle imposing a global risk
and severe constraints to livestock health and economic development. The complete …

Plant cells possess two more genomes besides the central nuclear genome: the
mitochondrial genome and the chloroplast genome (or plastome). Compared to the gigantic …

The phylum Apicomplexa comprises human pathogens such as Plasmodium but is also an
under-explored hotspot of evolutionary diversity central to understanding the origins of …