Use of the elongation factor-1α gene in a polymerase chain reaction-based restriction-fragment-length polymorphism analysis of genetic heterogeneity among Blastocystis species

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 287-291

  Ho, Lip Chuen ^a   Jeyaseelan, Kandiah ^a   Singh, Mulkit ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; Elfaprinting; Elongation factor 1 ; Genetic diversity; Riboprinting; Small subunit ribosomal RNA

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BLASTOCYSTIS; DNA PURIFICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BLASTOCYSTIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0035115780     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00358-3     Document Type: Article

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