Trypanosoma cruzi rRNA genes: A repeated element from the non-transcribed spacer is locus specific

Acta Tropica

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 163-170

  Pulido, Myriam ^a   Martínez Calvillo, Santiago ^a   Hernández, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

rDNA spacer; repetitive element; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PROBES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030590840     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(96)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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