Structure and sequence variation of the trypanosome spliced leader transcript

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 269-277

  Gibson, Wendy ^a,b   Bingle, Lewis ^a   Blendeman, Wim ^a   Brown, Julia ^b   Wood, James ^a   Stevens, Jamie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mini exon; Phylogeny; Spliced leader; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TRANS SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0034656020     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00193-6     Document Type: Article

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