An improved Plasmodium cynomolgi genome assembly reveals an unexpected methyltransferase gene expansion [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

Background: Plasmodium cynomolgi, a non-human primate malaria parasite species, has been an important model parasite since its discovery in 1907. Similarities in the biology of P. cynomolgi to the closely related, but less tractable, human malaria parasite P. vivax make it the model parasite of choi...

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Main Authors: Erica M Pasini, Ulrike Böhme, Gavin G. Rutledge, Annemarie Voorberg-Van der Wel, Mandy Sanders, Matt Berriman, Clemens HM Kocken, Thomas Dan Otto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wellcome 2017-06-01
Series:Wellcome Open Research
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Online Access:https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/2-42/v1