Cell division in apicomplexan parasites

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 125-136

  Francia, Maria E ^a   Striepen, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APICOMPLEXA; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIVISION; CELL INVASION; CELL MATURATION; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPLASM; DAUGHTER CELL; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; HOST; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIONT; TELOMERE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84892678585     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3184     Document Type: Review

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