Local admixture of amplified and diversified secreted pathogenesis determinants shapes mosaic Toxoplasma gondii genomes

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lorenzi, Hernan ^a   Khan, Asis ^b,c   Behnke, Michael S ^b,d   Namasivayam, Sivaranjani ^e,f   Swapna, Lakshmipuram S ^g,h   Hadjithomas, Michalis ^a,w   Karamycheva, Svetlana ^a   Pinney, Deborah ⁱ   Brunk, Brian P ⁱ   Ajioka, James W ^j   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^k   Boothroyd, John C ^l   Boyle, Jon P ^m   Dardé, Marie L ^k   Diaz Miranda, Maria A ⁱ   Dubey, Jitender P ⁿ   Fritz, Heather M ^o   Gennari, Solange M ^p   Gregory, Brian D ⁱ   Kim, Kami ^q   Saeij, Jeroen P J ^r   Su, Chunlei ^s   White, Michael W ^t   Zhu, Xing Quan ^u   Howe, Daniel K ^v   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ⁿ   Grigg, Michael E ^c   Parkinson, John ^g,h   Liu, Liang ^f   Kissinger, Jessica C ^e,f   Roos, David S ⁱ   Sibley, L David ^b   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Georgia   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁿ AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^o WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^q ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^u Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute   (China)

^v UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^w DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOME; PARASITE; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOAN;

CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; HOST RANGE; INHERITANCE; PARASITE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNTENY; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; COCCIDIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNTENY; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84954091677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10147     Document Type: Article

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