Role of transposable elements in trypanosomatids

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 575-581

  Bringaud, Frédéric ^a   Ghedin, Elodie ^b   El Sayed, Najib M A ^c   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^d  

^a CNRS University Bordeaux Segalen   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular function; Domestication; Evolution; Gene expression; Leishmania; Regulation of mRNA stability; Retroposon; Transposable element; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STABILITY; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSPOSON; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LEISHMANIA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 44449128473     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2008.02.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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