A comprehensive evaluation of rodent malaria parasite genomes and gene expression

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Otto, Thomas D ^a   Böhme, Ulrike ^a   Jackson, Andrew P ^b   Hunt, Martin ^a   Franke Fayard, Blandine ^c   Hoeijmakers, Wieteke A M ^d   Religa, Agnieszka A ^e   Robertson, Lauren ^a   Sanders, Mandy ^a   Ogun, Solabomi A ^f   Cunningham, Deirdre ^f   Erhart, Annette ^g   Billker, Oliver ^a   Khan, Shahid M ^c   Stunnenberg, Hendrik G ^d   Langhorne, Jean ^f   Holder, Anthony A ^f   Waters, Andrew P ^e   Newbold, Chris I ^h,i   Pain, Arnab ^j   Berriman, Matthew ^a   Janse, Chris J ^c   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

more..

Author keywords

Genomes; Genotypic diversity; Multigene families; Phylogeny; Pirs; Plasmodium berghei; Plasmodium chabaudi; Plasmodium yoelii; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA SEQUENCE; RODENT MALARIA; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PROTOZOAL RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RODENTIA;

EID: 84924328553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-014-0086-0     Document Type: Article

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