Long- and Short-Term Selective Forces on Malaria Parasite Genomes

Plasmodium parasites, the causal agents of malaria, result in more than 1 million deaths annually. Plasmodium are unicellular eukaryotes with small ∼23 Mb genomes encoding ∼5200 protein-coding genes. The protein-coding genes comprise about half of these genomes. Although evolutionary processes have...

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Autores principales: Nygaard, Sanne, Braunstein, Alexander, Malsen, Gareth, Van Dongen, Stijn, Gardner, Paul P., Krogh, Anders, Otto, Thomas D., Pain, Arnab, Berriman, Matthew, McAuliffe, Jon, Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T., Jeffares, Daniel C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20838588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001099

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