Chromosome 2 sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

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Published in Science on November 06, 1998

Authors

M J Gardner1, H Tettelin, D J Carucci, L M Cummings, L Aravind, E V Koonin, S Shallom, T Mason, K Yu, C Fujii, J Pederson, K Shen, J Jing, C Aston, Z Lai, D C Schwartz, M Pertea, S Salzberg, L Zhou, G G Sutton, R Clayton, O White, H O Smith, C M Fraser, M D Adams, J C Venter, S L Hoffman

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1: Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.

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