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Jun Luo1, Man Teng, Gai-Ping Zhang
1Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The evolutionary position of Giardia lamblia has been challenged in recent years. Comparison of the snoRNAs identified from Archaea and unicellular eukaryotes shows that G. lamblia snoRNAs are more similar in most respects to the counterparts identified from Dictyostelium discoideum, Plasmodium falciparum, fungi, and some metazoans, remarkably differently from those of Euglenozoa protozoans. We propose that G. lamblia emerged somewhat later than Trypanosoma and Euglena during the early evolution of "excavata" eukaryotes.
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