Trypanosoma cruzi strains partition into two groups based on the structure and function of the spliced leader RNA and rRNA gene promoters

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-224

  Nunes, Luiz R ^a,b   De Carvalho, Maria Ruth C ^a   Buck, Gregory A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gene promoter; rRNA; SL RNA; Taxonomy; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030910323     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)02857-0     Document Type: Article

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