Plasticity of the histone H2A genes in a Brazilian and six Colombian strains of Trypanosoma cruzi

Acta Tropica

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 203-210

  Thomas, M C ^a   Olivares, M ^a   Escalante, M ^b   Maranon C ^a   Montilla, M ^c   Nicholls, S ^c   Lopez M C ^a   Puerta, C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Medicina   (Colombia)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Genome; H2A gene units; Plasticity; Polymorphism; SINE; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAZIL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLOMBIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034712439     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(00)00061-9     Document Type: Article

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