Allelic lineages of the merozoite surface protein 3 gene in Plasmodium reichenowi and Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 185-188

  Okenu, Daniel M N ^a,b   Thomas, Alan W ^c   Conway, David J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Nigeria)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allele; Merozoite; msp3; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium reichenowi; Recombination

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033847436     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00245-0     Document Type: Article

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