Display of sequence variation in PCR-amplified mitochondrial DNA regions of Echinococcus by single-strand conformation polymorphism

Acta Tropica

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-115

  Gasser, Robin B ^a   Zhu, Xingquan ^a   McManus, Donald P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1; Echinococcus; Mitochondrial DNA; NADH dehydrogenase 1; Polymerase chain reaction based single strand conformation polymorphism; Sequence variation

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHINOCOCCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECHINOCOCCUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENOTYPE; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ECHINOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032531121     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(98)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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