Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis: A new minicircle class exclusive to this specie isolated from a DNA cosmid library useful for taxonomic purposes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 143-149

  Rodriguez, N ^a   Rodriguez, A ^a   Cardona, M ^a   Barrios, M A ^a   Mccann, S H E ^b   Barker, D C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; KINETOPLAST DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034075027     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4482     Document Type: Article

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