Leishmania: conserved evolution - diverse diseases

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 103-105

  Lynn, Miriam A ^a   McMaster, W Robert ^a  

^a VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEOMICS; RETROPOSON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR;

EID: 39749086154     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2007.11.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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