The Genome of the Obligate Intracellular Parasite Trachipleistophora hominis: New Insights into Microsporidian Genome Dynamics and Reductive Evolution

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Heinz, Eva ^a   Williams, Tom A ^a   Nakjang, Sirintra ^a   Noël, Christophe J ^a   Swan, Daniel C ^a   Goldberg, Alina V ^a   Harris, Simon R ^a   Weinmaier, Thomas ^b   Markert, Stephanie ^c   Becher, Dörte ^c   Bernhardt, Jörg ^c   Dagan, Tal ^d   Hacker, Christian ^e   Lucocq, John M ^e   Schweder, Thomas ^c   Rattei, Thomas ^b   Hall, Neil ^f   Hirt, Robert P ^a   Embley, T Martin ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; PROTEOME;

AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLISM; MICROSPORIDIA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MICROSPORIDIA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS;

EID: 84868125815     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002979     Document Type: Article

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