Nuclear and genome organization of Trypanosoma brucei

Parasitology Today

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Ersfeld, Klaus ^a   Gull, Keith ^a   Melville, Sara E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INTERPHASE; LIFE CYCLE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0000060704     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(98)01378-7     Document Type: Review

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