Research

Acanthamoeba

Acanthamoeba

castellanii

A free-living protozoan pathogen that causes infectious blindless and fatal brain infections, with toxic and ineffective therapies.

arabidopsis

Arabidopsis 

thaliana

A small plant from the mustard family (also known as thale cress) and serves as a model organism for plant biology research.

Babesia

Babesia

divergens

A tick-borne apicomplexan protozoan parasite that invades red blood cells and causes the malaria-like disease babesiosis.

Giardia

Giardia lamblia

An extremely reduced microaerophilic protozoan parasite that lacks key traditional mitochondria characteristics.

Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens

A multicellular eukaryotic organism and the most abundance and widespread species of primate.

Leishmania

Leishmania

tarentolae

A kinetoplastid pathogen with a unique DNA network and associated with other species that cause leishmaniasis.

Trypanosoma

Trypanosoma

brucei

A kinetoplastid pathogen with a unique DNA network and the causative agent of African sleeping sickness.

Comparative analysis

Comparative

analysis

Computer-based analysis between the experimentally derived inventories and the greater eukaryotic family tree.