Characterization of new Schistosoma mansoni microsatellite loci in sequences obtained from public DNA databases and microsatellite enriched genomic libraries

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 97, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages 71-75

  Rodrigues, N B ^a   LoVerde, P T ^b   Romanha, A J ^a   Oliveira, G ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Programa de Pos Graduacao e Pesquisa   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computational biology; DNA sequence analysis; Microsatellite repeats; Nucleic acid database; Polymorphism; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

HELMINTH DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BRAZIL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, HELMINTH; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036356047     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762002000900015     Document Type: Article

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