Malaria parasites : comparative genomics, evolution and molecular biology / edited by Jane M. Carlton, Susan L. Perkins, and Kirk W. Deitsch
Imprint
Norfolk, UK : Caister Academic Press, 2013
Descript
x, 280 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
The diversity of plasmodium and other haemosporidians: the intersection of taxonomy, phylogenetics and genomics -- The apicomplexan genomic landscape: the evolutionary context of plasmodium -- Plasmodium genomics and the art of sequencing malaria parasite genomes -- Genome diversity and applications in genetic studies of the human malaria parasites plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax -- Functional genomics of plasmodium parasites -- Plasmodium experimental genetic crosses -- Regulation of gene expression -- Invasion of host red blood cells by malaria parasites -- Host cell remodelling and protein trafficking -- Dissecting mosquito-parasite interactions through molecular biology and biochemistry: genomic, proteomic and glycomic analyses -- The malariologist's molecular toolboox