An analysis of mobile genetic elements in three Plasmodium species and their potential impact on the nucleotide composition of the P. falciparum genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Durand, Peirre M ^a   Oelofse, Andries J ^b   Coetzer, Theresa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 33751200507     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-282     Document Type: Article

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