The African trypanosome genome

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 329-345

  El Sayed, Najib M ^a   Hegde, Priti ^a   Quackenbush, John ^a   Melville, Sara E ^b   Donelson, John E ^c  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOME; PARASITOLOGY;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; KARYOTYPE; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TECHNIQUE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0034114374     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(00)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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