Selective pressures that decrease synonymous mutations in Plasmodium falciparum

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 411-417

  Forsdyke, Donald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PURINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA STRUCTURE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INTRON; MALARIA; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESSURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036746005     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(02)02342-5     Document Type: Review

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