Organelle DNAs: The bit players in malaria parasite DNA replication

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 357-362

  Williamson, D H ^a   Preiser, P R ^a   Wilson, R J M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

APICOMPLEXA; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL ORGANELLE; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASTID; REVIEW;

EID: 0030245576     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)10053-3     Document Type: Review

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