Analysis of the spatial and temporal arrangement of transcripts over intergenic regions in the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Russell, Karen ^a   Hasenkamp, Sandra ^a   Emes, Richard ^b   Horrocks, Paul ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apicomplexan parasites; Gene organisation; Malaria; Regulation of gene expression

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SPACER DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84876288562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-267     Document Type: Article

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