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De novo assembly of plasmodium interspersed repeat (pir) genes from Plasmodium vivax RNAseq data suggests geographic conservation of sub-family transcription
2025-04-17
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: The <italic>plasmodium interspersed repeats</italic> (<italic>pir</italic>) multigene family is found across malaria parasite genomes, first discovered in the human-infecting species <italic>Plasmodium vivax</italic>, where they were initially named the <italic>vir</italic>s. Their function remains unknown, although studies have suggested a role in virulence of...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 08b949c3-b18a-5485-aa61-3faab8a9953d
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5822769/v1
