A rhoptry-protein-associated mechanism of clonal phenotypic variation in rodent malaria

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6728, 1999, Pages 618-622

  Preiser, P R ^a   Jarra, W ^a   Capiod, T ^a,c   Snounou, G ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEROZOITE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONT;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RODENT DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII YOELII; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033561460     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19309     Document Type: Article

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