Onchocerca volvulus: Identification of cDNAs encoding a putative phosphatidyl-ethanolamine-binding protein and a putative partially processed mRNA precursor

Gene

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-207

  Erttmann, Klaus D ^a   Gallin, Michaela Y ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Filarial parasite; Nematode; Odorant binding; Ov16; Precursor transcript

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MAMMALIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0029799708     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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