Identifying functional groups among the diverse, recombining antigenic var genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from a local community in Ghana.
A challenge in studying diverse multi-copy gene families is deciphering distinct functional types within immense sequence variation. Functional changes can in some cases be tracked through the evolutionary history of a gene family; however phylogenetic approaches are not possible in cases where gene...
Main Authors: | Mary M Rorick, Edward B Baskerville, Thomas S Rask, Karen P Day, Mercedes Pascual |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6016947?pdf=render |
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