Medium-range restriction maps of five chromosomes of Leishmania infantum and localization of size-variable regions

Genomics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 509-516

  Ravel, Christophe ^a   Wincker, Patrick ^a   Blaineau, Christine ^a   Britto, Constança ^a   Bastien, Patrick ^a   Pages, Michel ^a  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030219716     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0391     Document Type: Article

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