The molecular karyotype of the megabase chromosomes of Trypanosoma brucei and the assignment of chromosome markers

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-173

  Melville, Sara E ^a   Leech, Vanessa ^a   Gerrard, Caroline S ^a   Tait, Andrew ^b   Blackwell, Jenefer M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome polymorphism; Expression sites; Karyotype; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; DIPLOIDY; DNA PROBES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC MARKERS; KARYOTYPING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032145092     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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