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The parasite Trichomonas vaginalis expresses thousands of pseudogenes and long non-coding RNAs independently from functional neighbouring genes

BACKGROUND: The human pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis is a parabasalian flagellate that is estimated to infect 3% of the world’s population annually. With a 160 megabase genome and up to 60,000 genes residing in six chromosomes, the parasite has the largest genome among sequenced protists. Although i...

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Autores principales: Woehle, Christian, Kusdian, Gary, Radine, Claudia, Graur, Dan, Landan, Giddy, Gould, Sven B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4223856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25326207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-906