The plasmodium falciparum 6 kb element is polycistronically transcribed

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-223

  Ji, Yuan En ^a,b   Mericle, Barbara L ^b   Rehkopf, David H ^b   Anderson, Julie D ^b   Feagin, Jean E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

mitochondrial genes; Plasmodium falciparum; polycistronic transcription; rRNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CISTRON; GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030607439     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02712-0     Document Type: Article

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