Virus-like, double-stranded RNAs in the parasitic protozoan cryptosporidium parvum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 289-300

  Khramtsov, Nikolai V ^a   Woods, Keith M ^a   Nesterenko, Michael V ^a   Dykstra, Christine C ^b   Upton, Steve J ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SPOROZOITE;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030782461     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5721933.x     Document Type: Article

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