Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6906, 2002, Pages 498-511

  Gardner, Malcolm J ^a   Hall, Neil ^b   Fung, Eula ^c   White, Owen ^a   Berriman, Matthew ^b   Hyman, Richard W ^c   Carlton, Jane M ^a   Pain, Arnab ^b   Nelson, Karen E ^a   Bowman, Sharen ^b,n   Paulsen, Ian T ^a   James, Keith ^b   Eisen, Jonathan A ^a   Rutherford, Kim ^b   Salzberg, Steven L ^a   Craig, Alister ^d   Kyes, Sue ^e   Chan, Man Suen ^e   Nene, Vishvanath ^a   Shallom, Shamira J ^a   Suh, Bernard ^a   Peterson, Jeremy ^a   Angiuoli, Sam ^a   Pertea, Mihaela ^a   Allen, Jonathan ^a   Selengut, Jeremy ^a   Haft, Daniel ^a   Mather, Michael W ^f   Vaidya, Akhil B ^f   Martin, David M A ^g   Fairlamb, Alan H ^g   Fraunholz, Martin J ^h   Roos, David S ^h   Ralph, Stuart A ⁱ   McFadden, Geoffrey I ⁱ   Cummings, Leda M ^a   Subramanian, G Mani ^j   Mungall, Chris ^k   Venter, J Craig ^l   Carucci, Daniel J ^m   Hoffman, Stephen L ^m,o   Davis, Ronald W ^c   Fraser, Claire M ^a   Barrell, Bart ^b   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^j CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

^k University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^l Ctr for the Advancement of Genomics   (United States)

^m NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^o SANARIA INC   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; CLONING; ENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS; METABOLISM; VACCINES;

HUMAN MALARIA PARASITES;

GENES;

FATTY ACID; ISOPRENOID; MALARIA VACCINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; TRANSFER RNA;

DISEASE CONTROL; GENOME; MALARIA; PARASITE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037015614     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01097     Document Type: Article

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