The genome of the simian and human malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7214, 2008, Pages 799-803

  Pain, A ^a   Bohme U ^a   Berry, A E ^a   Mungall, K ^a   Finn, R D ^a   Jackson, A P ^a   Mourier, T ^b   Mistry, J ^a   Pasini, E M ^c   Aslett, M A ^a   Balasubrammaniam, S ^a   Borgwardt, K ^d   Brooks, K ^a   Carret, C ^a   Carver, T J ^a   Cherevach, I ^a   Chillingworth, T ^a   Clark, T G ^a,e   Galinski, M R ^f   Hall, N ^g   Harper, D ^a   Harris, D ^a   Hauser, H ^a   Ivens, A ^a   Janssen, C S ^h   Keane, T ^a   Larke, N ^a   Lapp, S ^f   Marti, M ⁱ   Moule, S ^a   Meyer, I M ^j   Ormond, D ^a   Peters, N ^a   Sanders, M ^a   Sanders, S ^a   Sargeant, T J ^k,l   Simmonds, M ^a   Smith, F ^a   Squares, R ^a   Thurston, S ^a   Tivey, A R ^a   Walker, D ^a   White, B ^a   Zuiderwijk, E ^a   Churcher, C ^a   Quail, M A ^a   Cowman, A F ^k   Turner, C M R ^h   Rajandream, M A ^a   Kocken, C H M ^c   Thomas, A W ^c   Newbold, C I ^a,m   Barrell, B G ^a   Berriman, M ^a   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^k WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD99 ANTIGEN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

GENOME; HOST; MALARIA; MIMICRY; PARASITE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; RELATEDNESS;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BLOOD CELL; CENTROMERE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HOST; HUMAN; MALARIA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

MACACA FASCICULARIS; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SIMIAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 53649110550     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07306     Document Type: Article

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