The mini-exon gene: A genetic marker for zymodeme III of Trypanosoma cruzi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 129-133

  Fernandes, Octavio ^a,b,c   Sturm, Nancy R ^a   Derré, Rafael ^a,b   Campbell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Isoenzyme; Kinetoplastid; Spliced leader; Typing

Indexed keywords

EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032168071     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00073-5     Document Type: Article

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