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Comparative analysis of apicomplexa and genomic diversity in eukaryotes.
Genome research - 1 Sept 2004
Templeton Thomas J, Iyer Lakshminarayan M, Anantharaman Vivek, Enomoto Shinichiro, Abrahante Juan E, Subramanian G M, Hoffman Stephen L, Abrahamsen Mitchell S, Aravind L
Abstract excerpt
The apicomplexans Plasmodium and Cryptosporidium have developed distinctive adaptations via lineage-specific gene loss and gene innovation in the process of diverging from a common parasitic ancestor. The two lineages have acquired distinct but overlapping sets of surface protein adhesion domains typical of animal proteins, but in no case do they share multidomain architectures identical to animals....
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