From: Parasite epigenetics and immune evasion: lessons from budding yeast
Species | Varying genes (number of genes given in parentheses) | Mechanisms involved in gene variation | Reference(s) |
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Trypanosoma brucei | VSG (>1,000) | Epigenetic switches, DNA recombination | [3] |
Pneumocystis carinii | MSG (160) | DNA recombination | |
Plasmodium falciparum | VAR (60), rifin (150 to 200), and stevor (30 to 35) | Epigenetic switches | |
Candida glabrata | EPA (23) | Epigenetic switches | |
Giardia lamblia | VSP (220) | RNA interference | |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Various subtelomeric genes | Epigenetic switches | |
S. cerevisiae | Mating type loci (HMR α and HMLα) | DNA recombination | [17] |