Frequent recombination events generate diversity within the multi-copy variant antigen gene families of Plasmodium falciparum

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1099-1109

  Frank, Matthias ^a,b   Kirkman, Laura ^a   Costantini, Daniel ^a   Sanyal, Sohini ^a   Lavazec, Catherine ^a   Templeton, Thomas J ^a   Deitsch, Kirk W ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antigenic diversity; Gene conversion; Malaria; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; MALARIA; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, ORGANISM; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 44349099316     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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