Comparative genomic analysis of three Leishmania species that cause diverse human disease.

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Published in Nat Genet on June 17, 2007

Authors

Christopher S Peacock1, Kathy Seeger, David Harris, Lee Murphy, Jeronimo C Ruiz, Michael A Quail, Nick Peters, Ellen Adlem, Adrian Tivey, Martin Aslett, Arnaud Kerhornou, Alasdair Ivens, Audrey Fraser, Marie-Adele Rajandream, Tim Carver, Halina Norbertczak, Tracey Chillingworth, Zahra Hance, Kay Jagels, Sharon Moule, Doug Ormond, Simon Rutter, Rob Squares, Sally Whitehead, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Claire Arrowsmith, Brian White, Scott Thurston, Frédéric Bringaud, Sandra L Baldauf, Adam Faulconbridge, Daniel Jeffares, Daniel P Depledge, Samuel O Oyola, James D Hilley, Loislene O Brito, Luiz R O Tosi, Barclay Barrell, Angela K Cruz, Jeremy C Mottram, Deborah F Smith, Matthew Berriman

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK. csp@sanger.ac.uk

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