The genomes of Onchocerca volvulus

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 543-552

  Unnasch, Thomas R ^a   Williams, Steven A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

EST; Genetic bottleneck; Mitochondrial genome; River blindness; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

GENOME; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; VERTEBRATA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0034071122     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(99)00184-8     Document Type: Article

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