The evolutionary dynamics of variant antigen genes in Babesia reveal a history of genomic innovation underlying host–parasite interaction

Autor: Jackson, Andrew P., Otto, Thomas D., Darby, Alistair, Ramaprasad, Abhinay, Xia, Dong, Echaide, Ignacio Eduardo, Farber, Marisa, Gahlot, Sunayna, Gamble, John, Gupta, Diness, Gupta, Yask, Jackson, Louise, Malandrin, Laurence, Malas, Tareq B., Moussa, Ehab, Nair, Mridul, Reid, Adam J., Sanders, Mandy, Sharma, Jyotsna, Tracey, Alan, Quail, Mike A., Weir, William, Wastling, Jonathan M., Hall, Neil, Willadsen, Peter, Lingelbach, Klaus, Shiels, Brian, Tait, Andy, Berriman, Matt, Allred, David R., Pain, Arnab

Publikováno v: Nucleic Acids Research
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Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford University Press, 2014, 42 (11), pp.7113-7131. ⟨10.1093/nar/gku322⟩
Nucleic Acids Research 11 (42), 7113-7131. (2014)

Babesia spp. are tick-borne, intraerythrocytic hemoparasites that use antigenic variation to resist host immunity, through sequential modification of the parasite-derived variant erythrocyte surface antigen (VESA) expressed on the infected red blood

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