Isolation and characterization of a subtractive library enriched for developmentally regulated transcripts expressed during encystation of Toxoplasma gondii

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-235

  Yahiaoui, Bilel ^a   Dzierszinski, Florence ^a   Bernigaud, Annie ^a   Slomianny, Christian ^a   Camus, Daniel ^a   Tomavo, Stanislas ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Encystation; Gene expression; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032915435     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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