Architecture of the Trypanosoma brucei nucleus during interphase and mitosis

Chromosoma

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 501-513

  Ogbadoyi, Emmanuel ^a   Ersfeld, Klaus ^a   Robinson, Derrick ^a   Sherwin, Trevor ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0034007354     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050402     Document Type: Article

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