Subtle mutagenesis by ends-in recombination in malaria parasites

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2895-2902

  Nunes, Alvaro ^a   Thathy, Vandana ^a   Bruderer, Thomas ^a   Sultan, Ali A ^a   Nussenzweig, Ruth S ^a   Ménard, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032965155     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.4.2895     Document Type: Article

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