A large gene family for putative variant antigens shared by human and rodent malaria parasites

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1489, 2002, Pages 431-436

  Janssen, Christoph S ^a   Barrett, Michael P ^a   Turner, C Michael R ^a   Stephen Phillips, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Malaria; Multigene families; Rodent malaria; Variant antigen transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN; GENE; MALARIA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MALARIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RODENTIA;

EID: 41049085733     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1903     Document Type: Article

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