Identification of the telomeres on Schistosoma mansoni chromosomes by FISH

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 511-512

  Hirai, Hirohisa ^a,b   LoVerde, Philip T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PREPARATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PROBES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TELOMERE;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 0029953783     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284097     Document Type: Article

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