Lineage-specific expansion of proteins exported to erythrocytes in malaria parasites

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Sargeant, Tobias J ^a,b   Marti, Matthias ^a   Caler, Elisabet ^c   Carlton, Jane M ^c   Simpson, Ken ^a   Speed, Terence P ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINE; GENUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLESIOMORPHY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; TELOMERE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RODENTIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33646926281     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-2-r12     Document Type: Article

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