Biological Parameters and Molecular Markers of Clone CL Brener - The Reference Organism of the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Project

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 811-814

  Zingales, Bianca ^a   Pereira, Maria Elizabeth S ^b   Almeida, Kátia A ^a   Umezawa, Eufrosina S ^a   Nehme, Nédia S ^b   Oliveira, Riva P ^c   Macedo, Andrea ^c   Souto, Ricardo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological characteristics; CL Brener; Genome project; Molecular typing; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLONING; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLONING, ORGANISM; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031267761     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02761997000600016     Document Type: Article

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