Biallelic polymorphism in the intron region of β-tubulin gene of Cryptosporidium parasites

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 154-157

  Sulaiman, Irshad M ^a   Lal, Altaf A ^a   Arrowood, Michael J ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TUBULIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033012024     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3285725     Document Type: Article

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