Characterisation of a polymorphic Tc1-like transposable element of the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 157-166

  Hoekstra, R ^a   Otsen, M ^b   Lenstra, J A ^b   Roos, M H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Inverted repeat; Nematode; Target site; Tc1; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE DOSAGE; HAEMONCHUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS;

EID: 0032805792     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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