Trypanosomatidae: Phytomonas detection in plants and phytophagous insects by PCR amplification of a genus-specific sequence of the spliced leader gene

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 268-279

  Serrano, Myrna G ^a   Nunes, Luiz R ^b   Campaner, Marta ^a   Buck, Gregory A ^b   Camargo, Erney P ^a   Teixeira, Marta M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Mini exon gene; Phytomonas; Plant parasites; Spliced leader gene; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOMONAS; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PHYTOMONAS; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0032809108     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4379     Document Type: Article

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