Babesia bovis Rad51 ortholog influences switching of ves genes but is not essential for segmental gene conversion in antigenic variation

• Erin A. Mack ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin A. Mack, Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8893-0792

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• Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin A. Mack, Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2699-7331

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• Yu-Ping Xiao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Samantha Quesada,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• David R. Allred

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: allredd@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9347-5918

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