Plasmodium telomeres and telomere proximal gene expression

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-57

  Scherf, Artur ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosome breakage and healing; Fragile chromosome sites; Plasmodium telomeres; Subtelomeric genes

Indexed keywords

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0002853102     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1996.0008     Document Type: Article

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