Intergenic and external transcribed spacers of ribosomal RNA genes in lizard-infecting Leishmania: Molecular structure and phylogenetic relationship to mammal-infecting Leishmania in the subgenus Leishmania (Leishmania)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 695-701

  Orlando, Tereza C ^a   Rubio, Mary Anne T ^b   Sturm, Nancy R ^b   Campbell, David A ^b   Floeter Winter, Lucile M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lizard leishmania; Repetitive DNA; RNA polymerase I; rRNA processing; rRNA spacer evolution

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LEISHMANIA; LIZARD; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036633054     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762002000500020     Document Type: Article

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