Cargando…

Extreme mutation bias and high AT content in Plasmodium falciparum

For reasons that remain unknown, the Plasmodium falciparum genome has an exceptionally high AT content compared to other Plasmodium species and eukaryotes in general - nearly 80% in coding regions and approaching 90% in non-coding regions. Here, we examine how this phenomenon relates to genome-wide...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hamilton, William L., Claessens, Antoine, Otto, Thomas D., Kekre, Mihir, Fairhurst, Rick M., Rayner, Julian C., Kwiatkowski, Dominic
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5389722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27994033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw1259