Evolutionarily speaking, the apicoplast is one of those WOW moments. Apibirthday 😜
Fabien Burki
Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.
