The genome of Cryptosporidium hominis

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7012, 2004, Pages 1107-1112

  Xu, Ping ^a   Widmer, Giovanni ^b   Wang, Yingping ^a   Ozaki, Lulz S ^a   Alves, Joao M ^a   Serrano, Myrna G ^a   Pulu, Daniela ^a   Manque, Patriclo ^a   Akiyoshi, Donna ^b   Mackey, Aaron J ^c,g   Pearson, William R ^d   Dear, Paul H ^e   Bankler, Alan T ^e   Peterson, Darrell L ^a   Abrahamsen, Mltchell S ^f   Kapur, Vivek ^f   Tzipori, Saul ^b   Buck, Gregory A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASES; GASTROENTEROLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; PROTEINS; WATER SUPPLY;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPECIES; GLYCOLYSIS; INVERTEBRATES; OOCYSTS;

GENES;

BIOLOGY;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL INVASION; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GLYCOLYSIS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOST CELL; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOZOA;

ENZYME; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 7744238311     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02977     Document Type: Article

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