The chromosomal organization of the Plasmodium falciparum var gene family is conserved

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-60

  Thompson, Jennifer K ^a   Rubio, Justin P ^a   Caruana, Sonia ^a   Brockman, Alan ^b   Wickham, Mark E ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Plasmodium falciparum; Telomere; Var gene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, PROTOZOAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030845471     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00041-8     Document Type: Article

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