Evidence for clonal structure of natural populations of free-living amoebae of the genus Naegleria

Genetical Research

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-181

  Pernin, Pierre ^a   Cariou, Marie Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 0030865929     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672397002723     Document Type: Article

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