An evolutionary perspective on the kinome of malaria parasites

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1602, 2012, Pages 2607-2618

  Talevich, Eric ^a   Tobin, Andrew B ^b   Kannan, Natarajan ^a   Doerig, Christian ^c,d  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Evolution; Kinome; Malaria; Phosphoproteomics; Protein kinase

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BIOCHEMISTRY; DIVERGENCE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; MALARIA; PARASITE; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84865100605     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0014     Document Type: Review

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