Apicomplexa
"Apicomplexa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A phylum of unicellular parasitic EUKARYOTES characterized by the presence of complex apical organelles generally consisting of a conoid that aids in penetrating host cells, rhoptries that possibly secrete a proteolytic enzyme, and subpellicular microtubules that may be related to motility.
| Descriptor ID |
D016782
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.043.075
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| Concept/Terms |
Sporozoea- Sporozoea
- Sporozoeas
- Sporozoa
- Sporozoas
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Apicomplexa" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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White MW, Suvorova ES. Apicomplexa Cell Cycles: Something Old, Borrowed, Lost, and New. Trends Parasitol. 2018 09; 34(9):759-771.
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Suvorova ES, White MW. Transcript maturation in apicomplexan parasites. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2014 Aug; 20:82-7.