Studies with artificial extrachromosomal elements in trypanosomatids: Could specificity in the initiation of DNA replication be linked to that in transcription?

Parasitology Today

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 468-471

  Patnaik, Pradeep K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; REPLICON; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0030831446     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(97)01112-5     Document Type: Article

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