Novel type of linear mitochondrial genomes with dual flip-flop inversion system in apicomplexan parasites, Babesia microti and Babesia rodhaini

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hikosaka, Kenji ^a,b   Tsuji, Naotoshi ^c   Watanabe, Yoh ichi ^b   Kishine, Hiroe ^a   Horii, Toshihiro ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^d   Kita, Kiyoshi ^b   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Babesia Theileria; Flip flop inversion; Mitochondrial genome; Piroplasma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA RODHAINI; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOIDY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APICOMPLEXA; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA RODHAINI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; EIMERIA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); THEILERIA;

EID: 84868689278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-622     Document Type: Article

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