Cloning and characterization of Leishmania donovani telomeres

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 248-258

  Chiurillo, Miguel A ^a   Beck, Anita E ^b   Devos, Theo ^c   Myler, Peter J ^c,d   Stuart, Ken ^c,d   Ramirez, Jose Luis ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Telomere terminus; Vector adapter telomeric cloning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 0034049922     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.2000.4499     Document Type: Article

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