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High-resolution genotyping and mapping of recombination and gene conversion in the protozoan Theileria parva using whole genome sequencing.
BMC genomics - 23 Sept 2012
Henson Sonal, Bishop Richard P, Morzaria Subhash, Spooner Paul R, Pelle Roger, Poveda Lucy, Ebeling Martin, Küng Erich, Certa Ulrich, Daubenberger Claudia A, Qi Weihong
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BACKGROUND: Theileria parva is a tick-borne protozoan parasite, which causes East Coast Fever, a disease of cattle in sub-Saharan Africa. Like Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite undergoes a transient diploid life-cycle stage in the gut of the arthropod vector, which involves an obligate sexual cycle. As assessed using low-resolution VNTR markers, the crossover (CO) rate in T. parva is relatively high and has...
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