title: Parasite genomics: current status and future prospects.
abstract: The past year has brought great progress in the genome-sequencing efforts on a large number of protozoan and metazoan parasites. Whereas many of these projects are in their initial stages, at least one (for Plasmodium falciparum) is nearing completion. The information released to date has been most revealing with respect to immune evasion mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. tarleton@cb.uga.edu
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Tarleton
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kissinger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000940:Antigenic Variation; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends; D010271:Parasites / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000235:genetics; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D014612:Vaccines / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D014612:Vaccines