Trypanosoma cruzi: Can activity of the rRNA gene promoter be used as a marker for speciation?

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 232-234

  Floeter Winter, Lucile M ^a   Souto, Ricardo P ^a   Stolf, Beatriz S ^a   Zingales, Bianca ^a   Buck, Gregory A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CAT, chloramphenicol acetyl transferase; IGS, intergenic spacer sequences; Ribosomal gene; rRNA, ribosomal RNA; SL, spliced leader; Speciation; Spliced leader gene; Transcription promoter; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MARKER GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0031193709     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4170     Document Type: Article

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