Microsporidia: accumulating molecular evidence that a group of amitochondriate and suspectedly primitive eukaryotes are just curious fungi.

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Published in Gene on April 04, 2000

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Y Van de Peer1, A Ben Ali, A Meyer

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1: Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78457, Konstanz, Germany. yves.vandepeer@uni-konstanz.de

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