Comparative genomics, integrated with single-cell sequencing and genetic analyses, reveal roles of transcription factor AP2-M2 in asexual replication of Babesia parasite

• Jinming Wang ,

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

  * E-mail: wjm0403@caas.cn (JW); yinhong@caas.cn (HY); guanguiquan@caas.cn (GG)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2076-3764

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• Yijun Chai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Yuxin Ye,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Jifei Yang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Xinxin Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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• Hong Yin ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  * E-mail: wjm0403@caas.cn (JW); yinhong@caas.cn (HY); guanguiquan@caas.cn (GG)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

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• Guiquan Guan

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: wjm0403@caas.cn (JW); yinhong@caas.cn (HY); guanguiquan@caas.cn (GG)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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