Concerted evolution at a multicopy locus in the protozoan parasite Theileria parva: Extreme divergence of potential protein-coding sequences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1666-1673

  Bishop, Richard ^a   Musoke, Anthony ^a   Morzaria, Subhash ^a   Sohanpal, Baljinder ^a   Gobright, Elke ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEILERIA PARVA;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA PARVA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031037989     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.3.1666     Document Type: Article

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