The Entamoeba histolytica genome: Something old, something new, something borrowed and sex too?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 451-453

  Stanley Jr , Samuel L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; INTRON; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 24744470265     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2005.08.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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