Sequencing of the smallest Apicomplexan genome from the human pathogen Babesia microti

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 9102-9114

  Cornillot, Emmanuel ^a   Hadj Kaddour, Kamel ^a   Dassouli, Amina ^a   Noel, Benjamin ^b   Ranwez, Vincent ^c,d   Vacherie, Benoît ^b   Augagneur, Yoann ^e   Brès, Virginie ^a   Duclos, Aurelie ^b   Randazzo, Sylvie ^a   Carcy, Bernard ^a   Debierre Grockiego, Françoise ^f,g   Delbecq, Stéphane ^a   Moubri Ménage, Karina ^a   Shams Eldin, Hosam ^h   Usmani Brown, Sahar ^d   Bringaud, Frédéric ⁱ   Wincker, Patrick ^b   Vivarès, Christian P ^j   Schwarz, Ralph T ^f,g   Schetters, Theo P ^k   Krause, Peter J ^e   Gorenflot, André ^a   Berry, Vincent ^l   Barbe, Valérie ^b   Mamoun, Choukri Ben ^d   more..

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UMR AGAP   (France)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^g CEMAGREF   (France)

^h PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ CNRS University Bordeaux Segalen   (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^k Intervet/Schering Plough Animal Health   (Netherlands)

^l LIRMM   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIA MICROTI; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEILERIA PARVA;

BABESIA MICROTI; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84867487973     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks700     Document Type: Article

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