A superfamily of variant genes encoded in the subtelomeric region of Plasmodium vivax

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6830, 2001, Pages 839-842

  Del Portillo, Hernando A ^a   Fernandez Becerra, Carmen ^a   Bowman, Sharen ^b   Oliver, Karen ^b   Preuss, Martin ^c   Sanchez, Cecilia P ^c   Schneider, Nick K ^c   Villalobos, Juan M ^d   Rajandream, Marie Adele ^b   Harris, David ^b   Da Silva, Luiz H Pereira ^d   Barrell, Bart ^b   Lanzer, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Centro de Pesquisa em Medicina Tropical   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DNA; GENES; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

VARIANT GENES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; VIR;

EID: 0035848907     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35071118     Document Type: Article

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