Preliminary profile of the Cryptosporidium parvum genome: An expressed sequence tag and genome survey sequence analysis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-32

  Strong, William B ^a,b   Nelson, Richard G ^a,b,c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum; EST; Expressed sequence tag; Genome sequence; Genome survey sequence; GSS; Microsatellite; Simple sequence repeat; Sporozoite; SSR

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; CYCLOPHILIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; POLYKETIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SPOROZOITE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034653305     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00225-X     Document Type: Article

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