Comparative Gene Evolution in Haemosporidian (Apicomplexa) Parasites of Birds and Mammals

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 537-542

  Outlaw, Diana Cumings ^a,b   Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Malaria; Nonsynonymous; Parahaemoproteus; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

CASEINOLYTIC PROTEASE C; CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE I; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APICOMPLEXA; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; BIRD; CASEINOLYTIC PROTEASE C GENE; CODON USAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOCHROME B GENE; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE I GENE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TREE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARAHAEMOPROTEUS; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMODIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CYTOCHROMES B; DATABASES, GENETIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HAEMOSPORIDA; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APICOMPLEXA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA);

EID: 77249106487     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp283     Document Type: Article

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