Malaria parasites contain two identical copies of an elongation factor 1 alpha gene

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Vinkenoog, Rinke ^a   Sperança, Márcia Aparecida ^a,b   Van Breemen, Onno ^a   Ramesar, Jai ^a   Williamson, Donald H ^c   Ross MacDonald, Petra B ^c   Thomas, Alan W ^d   Janse, Chris J ^a   Del Portillo, Hernando A ^b   Waters, Andrew P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Elongation factor 1 ; Expression; Gene dosage; Malaria; Plasmodium berghei

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA;

ARTICLE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032128210     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00035-8     Document Type: Article

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