Temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE) analysis of riboprints from Trypanosoma cruzi

Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-253

  Stothard, J R ^a,b   Frame, I A ^a   Carrasco, H J ^a   Miles, M A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

18S; Heterogeneity; Paralogy; PCR RFLP; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S;

AMPLIFIED RIBOSOMAL DNA RESTRICTION ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HEAT; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CONORHINI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 0031659306     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098002972     Document Type: Article

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