Patterns of genome evolution among the Microsporidian parasites Encephalitozoon cuniculi, Antonospora locustae and enterocytozoon bieneusi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Corradi, Nicolas ^a   Akiyoshi, Donna E ^b   Morrison, Hilary G ^c   Feng, Xiaochuan ^b   Weiss, Louis M ^d   Tzipori, Saul ^b   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTONOSPORA LOCUSTAE; ARTICLE; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; GENE ORDER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANTONOSPORA LOCUSTAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; FUNGI; MICROSPORIDIA;

ENCEPHALITOZOON; EVOLUTION; GENOME, FUNGAL; MICROSPORIDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 41049090836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001277     Document Type: Article

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