Genome plasticity in Plasmodium.

doi:10.1007/BF01443424

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Genome plasticity in Plasmodium.

Genetica - 1 Jan 1994

Frontali C

Abstract excerpt

Extensive genome plasticity in Plasmodium involves frequent loss of dispensable functions under non-selective conditions, polymorphisms in subtelomeric repetitive regions, as well as rapid and apparently concerted variation in the intra-genic repetitive arrays that are typical of plasmodial antig...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Genetic Variation
Genome, Protozoan
Molecular Sequence Data
Plasmodium
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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