Schistosoma mansoni: The varying occurrence of repetitive elements in different strains shows sex-specific polymorphisms

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 222-227

  Quack, Thomas ^a   Doenhoff, Mike ^b   Kunz, Werner ^a   Grevelding, Christoph G ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEX CHROMOSOME;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0031826838     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4293     Document Type: Article

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