Kinetoplast DNA minicircles are inherited from both parents in genetic crosses of Trypanosoma brucei

Parasitology Research

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 483-488

  Gibson, Wendy ^a   Crow, Mandy ^b   Kearns, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CROSSING OVER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HETEROKARYON; HYBRIDIZATION; KINETOPLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CROSSES, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, KINETOPLAST; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0030946123     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050284     Document Type: Article

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