Genome variation and evolution of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-125

  Jeffares, Daniel C ^a   Pain, Arnab ^a   Berry, Andrew ^a   Cox, Anthony V ^a   Stalker, James ^a   Ingle, Catherine E ^a   Thomas, Alan ^b   Quail, Michael A ^a   Siebenthall, Kyle ^a,c   Uhlemann, Anne Catrin ^d   Kyes, Sue ^e   Krishna, Sanjeev ^d   Newbold, Chris ^e   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a   Berriman, Matthew ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; LABORATORY TEST; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GHANA; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; OPEN READING FRAMES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33845905179     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1931     Document Type: Article

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