Analysis of ploidy (in megabase chromosomes) in Trypanosoma brucei after genetic exchange

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Hope, Michelle ^a   MacLeod, Annette ^b   Leech, Vanessa ^c   Melville, Sara ^c   Sasse, Juergen ^c   Tait, Andrew ^b   Turner, C Michael R ^a  

^a IBLS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic exchange; Minisatellite; PCR amplification; T. brucei; Triploidy

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA CONTENT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; KARYOTYPING; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; PLOIDIES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 0032730957     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00103-6     Document Type: Article

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