Giardia A Model Organism /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Luján, Hugo D. (Editor), Svärd, Staffan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Parasitology.; Microbiology.; Animal genetics.; Animal models in research.; Biomedicine.; Eukaryotic Microbiology.; Animal Models.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.

Giardia is a relatively simple eukaryotic microbe, causing acute and chronic diarrhea which has been used as a model to understand complex biological processes occurring in eukaryotic cells. Further, due to its parasitic lifestyle, Giardia is an excellent system for the study of the mechanisms of ad...