Reduced genetic variability within coding and non-coding regions of the Echinococcus multilocularis genome

Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 521-529

  Haag, K L ^a   Zaha, A ^a   Araujo A M ^a   Gottstein, B ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Echinococcus multilocularis; Genetic variability; SSCP; Strain

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECHINOCOCCUS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

BOS TAURUS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030831038     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097001649     Document Type: Article

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