Genomic data reveal toxoplasma gondii differentiation mutants are also impaired with respect to switching into a novel extracellular tachyzoite state

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Lescault, Pamela J ^a   Thompson, Ann B ^a   Patil, Veerupaxagouda ^a   Lirussi, Dario ^a   Burton, Amanda ^a   Margarit, Juan ^a   Bond, Jeffrey ^a   Matrajt, Mariana ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BRADYZOITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TOXOPLASMA; UPREGULATION;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 78651241474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014463     Document Type: Article

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