Ingenious gene generation

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 353-355

  Meeus, Patrick F M ^a   Barbet, Anthony F ^a  

^a University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BIODIVERSITY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EHRLICHIA; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK;

EID: 0035422305     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)02112-6     Document Type: Review

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