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Science 1 July 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5731, pp. 72 - 73
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115252

Perspectives

GENETICS:
Themes and Variations in Apicomplexan Parasite Biology

David S. Roos

Theileria parasites are eukaryotic pathogens that cause diseases in cattle in sub-Saharan Africa, with serious economic consequences. In his Perspective, Roos discusses how newly reported genome sequences for Theileria (Gardner et al., Pain et al.) give insight into Theileria biology.


The author is at the University of Pennsylvania Genomics Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018, USA. E-mail: droos{at}sas.upenn.edu

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