Heterogeneous ribosome populations are present in Plasmodium berghei during development in its vector

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 253-260

  Thompson, Joanne ^a,c   Van Spaendonk, Rosalina M L ^b   Choudhuri, Rangana ^a,d   Sinden, Robert E ^a   Janse, Chris J ^b   Waters, Andrew P ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SPOROZOITE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; CYTOPLASM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RIBOSOMES; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032920063     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01167.x     Document Type: Article

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