Members of a large retroposon family are determinants of post-transcriptional gene expression in Leishmania.

Members of a large retroposon family are determinants of post-transcriptional gene expression in Leishmania.

Trypanosomatids are unicellular protists that include the human pathogens Leishmania spp. (leishmaniasis), Trypanosoma brucei (sleeping sickness), and Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease). Analysis of their recently completed genomes confirmed the presence of non-long-terminal repeat retrotransposons,...

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Main Authors: Frédéric Bringaud, Michaela Müller, Gustavo Coutinho Cerqueira, Martin Smith, Annie Rochette, Najib M A El-Sayed, Barbara Papadopoulou, Elodie Ghedin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-09-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2323293?pdf=render

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