Chromosome End Repair and Genome Stability in Plasmodium falciparum
The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum replicates within circulating red blood cells, where it is subjected to conditions that frequently cause DNA damage. The repair of DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) is thought to rely almost exclusively on homologous recombination (HR), due to a lack...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-08-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/4/e00547-17 |