Hammondia hammondi, an avirulent relative of Toxoplasma gondii, has functional orthologs of known T. gondii virulence genes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7446-7451

  Walzer, Katelyn A ^a   Adomako Ankomah, Yaw ^a   Dam, Rachel A ^a   Herrmann, Daland C ^b   Schares, Gereon ^b   Dubey, Jitender P ^c   Boyle, Jon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Gene content versus gene deployment; Host range; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HAMMONDIA HAMMONDI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTENY; TGROP18 GENE; TGROP5 GENE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNTENY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; HAMMONDIA HAMMONDI; MUS; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84876941716     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304322110     Document Type: Article

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