Evolutionary genetic insights into Plasmodium falciparum functional genes

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 349-355

  Sharma, Meenu ^a   Dash, Aditya P ^a,b   Das, Aparup ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SYNTENY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SYNTENY;

EID: 77949329049     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1668-6     Document Type: Article

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