Genes expressed in Brugia malayi infective third stage larvae

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-93

  Blaxter, Mark L ^a   Raghavan, Nithyakalyani ^b   Ghosh, Inca ^b   Guiliano, David ^c   Lu, Wenhong ^c   Williams, Steven A ^c   Slatko, Barton ^d   Scott, Alan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brugia malayi, third stage larva; Expressed sequence tag; Nematode; Polymerase chain reaction; Spliced leader; Trans splicing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI;

EID: 0029989092     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02571-6     Document Type: Article

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