Galectins from sheep gastrointestinal nematode parasites are highly conserved

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-289

  Greenhalgh, Christopher J ^a   Beckham, Simone A ^a   Newton, Susan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VIC INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Galectin; Haemonchus contortus; Nematode; Trichostrongylus colubriformis; galactoside binding lectin

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN; LECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SHORT SURVEY; TANDEM REPEAT; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALIA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; OVIS ARIES; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

EID: 0032980992     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00167-4     Document Type: Article

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