The complexity of the sylvatic cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi in Rio de Janeiro state (Brazil) revealed by the non-transcribed spacer of the mini-exon gene

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-166

  Fernandes, Octavio ^a,d   Mangia, R H ^a   Lisboa, C V ^a   Pinho, A P ^a   Morel, C M ^a   Zingales, B ^b   Campbell, D A ^c   Jansen, A M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Didelphis marsupialis; Leontophitecus rosalia; Mini exon gene; Sylvatic cycle; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CELL LINEAGE; ECOSYSTEM; EXON; FOREST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST; LIFE CYCLE; LION; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SLOTH; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EXONS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETICS, POPULATION; INSECT VECTORS; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; MICE; PHYLOGENY; RHODNIUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SAGUINUS; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; BRADYPUS INFUSCATUS; DASYPODIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS MARSUPIALIS; EDENTATA; LEONTOPITHECUS ROSALIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PANTHERA LEO; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032892643     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098003709     Document Type: Article

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