A new heterogeneous family of telomerically encoded Cryptosporidium proteins

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-217

  Bouzid, Maha ^a   Hunter, Paul R ^a   Mcdonald, Vincent ^b   Elwin, Kristin ^c   Chalmers, Rachel M ^c   Tyler, Kevin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioinfomatics phyloinfomatics; Biomedicine; Genomics proteomics; Host parasite interactions; Microbial biology; Molecular evolution; Parasitology; Virulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872183985     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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