The serine repeat antigen (SERA) gene family phylogeny in plasmodium: The impact of GC content and reconciliation of gene and species trees

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2161-2171

  Bourgon, Richard ^a   Delorenzi, Mauro ^b,c   Sargeant, Tobias ^b   Hodder, Anthony N ^b   Crabb, Brendan S ^b   Speed, Terence P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GC content; Orthology; Paralogy; Plasmodium; Reconciliation; Serine repeat antigen (SERA)

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 5; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DRUG TARGETING; GENE LOSS; MALARIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTIDINE; DATABASES, GENETIC; GUANOSINE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SERINE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 6344225452     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh228     Document Type: Article

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