Lipid metabolism in Giardia: A post-genomic perspective

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 267-278

  Yichoy, M ^a,b   Duarte, T T ^a   De Chatterjee, A ^a   Mendez, T L ^a   Aguilera, K Y ^a   Roy, D ^a   Roychowdhury, S ^a   Aley, S B ^a   Das, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

genome database; giardiasis; Key wordsGiardia; lipid; metabolic pathways; parasite

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENOMICS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS; GENOME; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952899826     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010001277     Document Type: Review

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