Sequence survey of the genome of the opportunistic microsporidian pathogen, Vittaforma corneae

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 393-401

  Mittleider, Derek ^a   Green, Linda C ^b,c,d   Mann, Victoria H ^a,c   Michael, Scott F ^a,c   Didier, Elizabeth S ^b,c   Brindley, Paul J ^a,c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage; GC content; GSS; Microsporidia; Retrotransposon; Reverse transcriptase; Topoisomerase

Indexed keywords

PATHOGEN;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MICROSPORIDIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPRAGUEA LOPHII; TRANSPOSONS; VITTAFORMA CORNEAE;

EID: 0036710930     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2002.tb00218.x     Document Type: Article

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