The nicotinic acetylcholine α-subunit gene tar-1 is located on the X chromosome but its coding sequence is not involved in levamisole resistance in an isolate of Trichostrongylus colubriformis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 415-422

  Wiley, L J ^a   Ferrara, D R ^a   Sangster, N C ^a   Weiss, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Levamisole; Nicotinic receptor; Sex linked; Trichostrongylus colubriformis

Indexed keywords

LEVAMISOLE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEX LINKAGE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; X CHROMOSOME; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC MARKERS; LEVAMISOLE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031573482     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00179-5     Document Type: Article

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