Expression of var genes located within polymorphic subtelomeric domains of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 3679-3686

  Fischer, Katja ^a   Horrocks, Paul ^a   Preuß, Martin ^a   Wiesner, Jochen ^a   Wünsch, Stefan ^a   Camargo, Anamaria A ^a   Lanzer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030927168     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.7.3679     Document Type: Article

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