Frequent ectopic recombination of virulence factor genes in telomeric chromosome clusters of P. falciparum

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6807, 2000, Pages 1018-1022

  Freitas Junior, Lúcio H ^a   Bottius, Emmanuel ^a,b   Pirrit, Lindsay A ^a   Deitsch, Kirk W ^c   Scheidig, Christine ^a   Guinet, Francoise ^a,d   Nehrbass, Ulf ^d   Wellems, Thomas E ^c   Scherf, Artur ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Gen Odyssee   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0034718886     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35039531     Document Type: Article

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