The mitochondrial genome of Onchocerca volvulus: Sequence, structure and phylogenetic analysis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-127

  Keddie, Elise M ^a   Higazi, Tarig ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Filaria; Mitochondria; Nematode; O. volvulus; Onchocerciasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ASCARIS SUUM; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FILARIA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0032169062     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00102-9     Document Type: Article

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