Trypanosoma brucei: Inheritance of kinetoplast DNA maxicircles in a genetic cross and their segregation during vegetative growth

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 234-241

  Michael, C ^a   Turner, R ^a   Hide, Geoff ^a   Buchanan, Norma ^a   Tait, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genetics; kinetoplast; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

EID: 0028953167     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1995.1029     Document Type: Article

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