The Giardia lamblia vsp gene repertoire: Characteristics, genomic organization, and evolution

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Adam, Rodney D ^a   Nigam, Anuranjini ^a   Seshadri, Vishwas ^a   Martens, Craig A ^b   Farneth, Gregory A ^b   Morrison, Hilary G ^c   Nash, Theodore E ^d   Porcella, Stephen F ^b   Patel, Rima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MBL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; DNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; VARIANT SURFACE PROTEIN H7, GIARDIA LAMBLIA;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TROPHOZOITE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE;

EID: 77954329129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-424     Document Type: Article

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