Three main patterns in the expression of six actin genes in the plerocercoid and adult Diphyllobothrium dendriticum tapeworm (Cestoda)

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-209

  Wahlberg, Monica H ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Actin; Cestoda; Digoxigenin; Diphyllobothrium dendriticum; In situ hybridization; Platyhelminthes

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA ACTIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN-1; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

CESTODA; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM DENDRITICUM;

EID: 0030957971     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00034-0     Document Type: Article

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