Conservation of low-copy gene loci in Old World leishmanias identifies mechanisms of parasite evolution and diagnostic markers

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-40

  Pogue, Gregory P ^a,d   Joshi, Manju ^a   Lee, Nancy S ^a   Dwyer, Dennis M ^b   Kenney, Richard T ^c   Gam, Albert A ^c   Nakhasi, Hira L ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Lab of Parasitic Biol and Biochem   (United States)

^d Biosource Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome structure; Differential gene expression; Evolution; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Restriction fragment length polymorphism(s)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 0030592444     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02697-7     Document Type: Article

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