Isolation of developmentally regulated genes from Toxoplasma gondii by a gene trap with the positive and negative selectable marker hypoxanthine- xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 807-814

  Knoll, Laura J ^a   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; XANTHINE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031929681     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.2.807     Document Type: Article

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