Cloning of telomere-associated DNA using single-specific-primer polymerase chain reaction provides evidence for a conserved sequence directly adjacent to Theileria parva telomeric repeats

Gene

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 401-409

  Sohanpal, Baljinder ^a   Wasawo, Delia ^a   Bishop, Richard ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Non coding repetitive DNA; Plasmodium falciparum; SfiI restriction fragment; Single copy 141bp sequence; Sporozoan protozoa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TELOMERE; THEILERIA PARVA;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE; THEILERIA PARVA;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 0034687159     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00284-5     Document Type: Article

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