Complex mutations in a high proportion of microsatellite loci from the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1599-1608

  Anderson, Timothy J C ^a,c   Su, Xin Zhuan ^a   Roddam, Andre W ^b   Day, Karen P ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity; Malaria; Microsatellite; Plasmodium falciparum; Stepwise mutation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCING; GENETIC VARIANCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033664786     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2000.01057.x     Document Type: Article

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