Characterization of a single group I intron in the 18S rRNA gene of the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum

Medical Mycology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 205-212

  Lasker, Brent A ^a   Smith, Gwen W ^a   Kobayashi, George S ^b   Whitney, Anne M ^a   Mayer, Leonard W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome; Group I intron sequence; Histoplasma capsulatum

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; INTRON; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTOPLASMA; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

AJELLOMYCES; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; EXOPHIALA CASTELLANII; FUNGI;

EID: 0031928461     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-280X.1998.00139.x     Document Type: Article

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