Thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR amplification of YAC insert end fragments for chromosome walking in Plasmodium falciparum and other A/T-rich genomes

BioTechniques

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 240-248

  Foster, Jeremy M ^a,b   Christodoulou, Zoe ^a   Cowan, Gill M ^a   Newbold, Christopher I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTOZOAL DNA; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TECHNIQUE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032801726     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/99272bm05     Document Type: Article

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