Coccidiosis is recognized as the major parasitic disease of poultry and is caused by the
apicomplexan protozoan Eimeria. Coccidiosis seriously impairs the growth and feed …

Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite which is a significant
human and veterinary pathogen. Other members of the phylum Apicomplexa are also …

The majority of known Toxoplasma gondii isolates from Europe and North America belong to
three clonal lines that differ dramatically in their virulence, depending on the host. To identify …

Toxoplasma gondii is one of the most widespread parasites of domestic, wild, and
companion animals, and it also commonly infects humans. Toxoplasma gondii has a …

Toxoplasma gondii is among the most successful parasites. It is capable of infecting all
warm-blooded animals and causing opportunistic disease in humans. T. gondii has a …

Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing projects are underway for numerous organisms,
generating millions of short, single-pass nucleotide sequence reads, accumulating in EST …

Schistosoma japonicum causes schistosomiasis in humans and livestock in the Asia-Pacific
region. Knowledge of the genome of this parasite should improve understanding of …

Conifers are characterized by a large genome size and a rapid decay of linkage
disequilibrium, most often within gene limits. Genome scans based on noncoding markers …

The surface of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is coated with developmentally
expressed, glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked proteins structurally related to the highly …

Toxoplasma gondii is a highly successful protozoan parasite in the phylum Apicomplexa,
which contains numerous animal and human pathogens. T. gondii is amenable to cellular …