Highly conserved gene arrangement of the mitochondrial genomes of 23 Plasmodium species

Parasitology International

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-180

  Hikosaka, Kenji ^a   Watanabe, Yoh ichi ^b   Kobayashi, Fumie ^c   Waki, Seiji ^d   Kita, Kiyoshi ^b   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d GUNMA PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Evolution; Genome structure; Inverted repeat sequence; Mitochondrion; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; EIMERIA; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LEUCOCYTOZOON CAULLERYI; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PLASMODIUM VINCKEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

APICOMPLEXA; EIMERIA; LEUCOCYTOZOON; LEUCOCYTOZOON CAULLERYI; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PLASMODIUM VINCKEI VINCKEI;

EID: 79953771276     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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