Genome and Phylogenetic Analyses of Trypanosoma evansi Reveal Extensive Similarity to T. brucei and Multiple Independent Origins for Dyskinetoplasty

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Carnes, Jason ^a   Anupama, Atashi ^a   Balmer, Oliver ^b   Jackson, Andrew ^c   Lewis, Michael ^d   Brown, Rob ^a   Cestari, Igor ^a   Desquesnes, Marc ^e,f   Gendrin, Claire ^a   Hertz Fowler, Christiane ^c   Imamura, Hideo ^g   Ivens, Alasdair ^h   Kořený, Luděk ^i,j   Lai, De Hua ^i,j,k   MacLeod, Annette ^l   McDermott, Suzanne M ^a   Merritt, Chris ^a   Monnerat, Severine ^a   Moon, Wonjong ^a   Myler, Peter ^a   Phan, Isabelle ^a   Ramasamy, Gowthaman ^a   Sivam, Dhileep ^a   Lun, Zhao Rong ^k   Lukeš, Julius ^i,j,m   Stuart, Ken ^a,n   Schnaufer, Achim ^h   more..

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e Campus international de Baillarguet   (France)

^f KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^k SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^m CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; KINETOPLAST DNA; PROTEOME; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCYCLIN ASSOCIATED GENE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; TRYPANOSOMA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84922214409     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003404     Document Type: Article

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