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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...
Autores principales: | Hamilton, William L., Claessens, Antoine, Otto, Thomas D., Kekre, Mihir, Fairhurst, Rick M., Rayner, Julian C., Kwiatkowski, Dominic |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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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 |
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