The evolutionary dynamics of variant antigen genes in Babesia reveal a history of genomic innovation underlying host-parasite interaction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7113-7131

  Jackson, Andrew P ^a   Otto, Thomas D ^b   Darby, Alistair ^a   Ramaprasad, Abhinay ^c   Xia, Dong ^a   Echaide, Ignacio Eduardo ^d   Farber, Marisa ^e   Gahlot, Sunayna ^f   Gamble, John ^b   Gupta, Dinesh ^f   Gupta, Yask ^f   Jackson, Louise ^g   Malandrin, Laurence ^h   Malas, Tareq B ^c   Moussa, Ehab ^c   Nair, Mridul ^c   Reid, Adam J ^b   Sanders, Mandy ^b   Sharma, Jyotsna ⁱ   Tracey, Alan ^b   Quail, Mike A ^b   Weir, William ⁱ   Wastling, Jonathan M ^a   Hall, Neil ^a   Willadsen, Peter ^g   Lingelbach, Klaus ⁱ   Shiels, Brian ^j   Tait, Andy ^j   Berriman, Matt ^b   Allred, David R ^k   Pain, Arnab ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA   (Argentina)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^f INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^g DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^h Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health   (France)

ⁱ PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIANT ERYTHROCYTE SURFACE ANTIGEN 1; VARIANT ERYTHROCYTE SURFACE ANTIGEN 2;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIA DIVERGENS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VES1 GENE; VES2 GENE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BABESIA; CHROMOSOME BREAKPOINTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903183110     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku322     Document Type: Article

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