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SUBMITTER: Carlton JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2080659 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20070101 5809
We describe the genome sequence of the protist Trichomonas vaginalis, a sexually transmitted human pathogen. Repeats and transposable elements comprise about two-thirds of the approximately 160-megabase genome, reflecting a recent massive expansion of genetic material. This expansion, in conjunction with the shaping of metabolic pathways that likely transpired through lateral gene transfer from bacteria, and amplification of specific gene families implicated in pathogenesis and phagocytosis of h ...[more]