A single locus minisatellite sequence which distinguishes between Trypanosoma brucei isolates

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-99

  Barrett, Michael P ^a   MacLeod, Annette ^b   Tovar, Jorge ^a   Sweetman, Justin P ^c   Tait, Andrew ^d   Le Page, Richard W F ^a   Melville, Sara E ^a  

^a Laboratory of Biochemical Parasitology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genetic exchange; minisatellite; Trypanosoma brucei; variable number of tandem repeat sequence

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0030946918     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)02832-6     Document Type: Article

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