An improved general approach for cloning and characterizing telomeres: The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi as model organism

Gene

Volumn 294, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 197-204

  Chiurillo, Miguel Angel ^a,b   Santos, Marcia R M ^c   Da Silveira, Jose Franco ^c   Ramírez, Jose Luis ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Biologia Experimental Universidad Central de Venezuela Calle Suapure   (Venezuela)

^b Fundacion Instituto de Estudios Avanzados IDEA   (Venezuela)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bacterial artificial chromosome vector adaptor cloning of telomeres; Telomere organization

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037055282     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00768-0     Document Type: Article

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