Rapid changes in transcription profiles of the Plasmodium yoelii yir multigene family in clonal populations: Lack of epigenetic memory?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Cunningham, Deirdre ^a   Fonager, Jannik ^a,d   Jarra, William ^a   Carret, Celine ^b,e   Preiser, Peter ^c   Langhorne, Jean ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROMANIPULATION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM YOELII; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CLONE; CHROMOSOME; DNA MICROARRAY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MALARIA; MEMORY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE;

MUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CLONE CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, SWITCH; MALARIA; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMODIUM YOELII; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOZOITES;

EID: 59549094671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004285     Document Type: Article

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