The plasmodium apicoplast genome: Conserved structure and close relationship of P. ovale to rodent malaria parasites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2095-2099

  Arisue, Nobuko ^a   Hashimoto, Tetsuo ^b   Mitsui, Hideya ^b,c   Palacpac, Nirianne M Q ^a   Kaneko, Akira ^d,e,f   Kawai, Satoru ^g   Hasegawa, Masami ^c   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^a   Horii, Toshihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

apicoplast genome; malaria; molecular phylogeny; Plasmodium ovale

Indexed keywords

APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM OVALE; RODENT; RODENT MALARIA;

ANIMALS; GENE ORDER; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM OVALE; RODENTIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM PARASITES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865479657     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss082     Document Type: Article

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