Comparative Analysis of the 5S rRNA and Its Associated Proteins Reveals Unique Primitive Rather Than Parasitic Features in Giardia lamblia

Jin-Mei Feng; Jun Sun; De-Dong Xin; Jian-Fan Wen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036878

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Comparative Analysis of the 5S rRNA and Its Associated Proteins Reveals Unique Primitive Rather Than Parasitic Features in Giardia lamblia

Jin-Mei Feng ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Mei Feng, Jun Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People’s Republic of China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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Jun Sun ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Mei Feng, Jun Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People’s Republic of China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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De-Dong Xin,

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, People’s Republic of China
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Jian-Fan Wen

* E-mail: wenjf@mail.kiz.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People’s Republic of China
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Comparative Analysis of the 5S rRNA and Its Associated Proteins Reveals Unique Primitive Rather Than Parasitic Features in Giardia lamblia

Jin-Mei Feng,
Jun Sun,
De-Dong Xin,
Jian-Fan Wen

Published: June 7, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036878

About the Authors

Jin-Mei Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Mei Feng, Jun Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People’s Republic of China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jun Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Mei Feng, Jun Sun

De-Dong Xin

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, People’s Republic of China

Jian-Fan Wen

* E-mail: wenjf@mail.kiz.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFW. Performed the experiments: JMF JS. Analyzed the data: JFW JMF JS DDX. Wrote the paper: JFW JMF JS.

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