Compositional Constraints in the Extremely GC-poor Genome of Plasmodium falciparum

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 835-841

  Musto, Héctor ^a   Cacciò, Simone ^b   Rodríguez Maseda, Helena ^c   Bernardi, Giorgio ^b  

^a Institute Cle fi'Sica   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Dinucleotides; Genome organization; Plasmodium falciparum gC levels

Indexed keywords

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOSINE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GUANINE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031267538     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02761997000600020     Document Type: Article

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