Increased polymorphism near low-complexity sequences across the genomes of Plasmodium falciparum isolates

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 539-550

  Haerty, Wilfried ^a   Golding, G Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Low complexity sequences; Plasmodium falciparum; Polymorphism; Size variation

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 80054779922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr045     Document Type: Article

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