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The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax exhibits greater genetic diversity than Plasmodium falciparum
Jane Carlton and colleagues report the genome sequencing, de novo assembly and annotation of four Plasmodium vivax reference strains from diverse geographic locations. Their cross-species comparisons show that P....
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Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology in Pathogenic Microbes
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) methods have revolutionized various aspects of genomics including transcriptome analysis. Digital expression analysis is all set to replace analog expression analysis that uses...
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Open AccessGenome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans
The genome of Phytophthora infestans, the pathogen that triggered the Irish potato famine in the nineteenth century, has been sequenced. It remains a devastating pathogen, with late blight destroying crops worth ...
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Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics of the Phytophthora sojae Soybean Interaction
Oomycete plant pathogens such as Phytophthora species and downy mildews cause destructive diseases in an enormous variety of crop plant species as well as forests and native ecosystems. These pathogens are most c...
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Nonneutral GC3 and Retroelement Codon Mimicry in Phytophthora
Phytophthora is a genus entirely comprised of destructive plant pathogens. It belongs to the Stramenopila, a unique branch of eukaryotes, phylogenetically distinct from plants, animals, or fungi....
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Elicitin genes in Phytophthora infestans are clustered and interspersed with various transposon-like elements
Sequencing and annotation of a contiguous stretch of genomic DNA (112.3 kb) from the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans revealed the order, spacing and genomic context of four members of the elicitin ...
