Two types of ribosomal RNA genes in hybrid Trypanosoma cruzi strains

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-80

  Stolf, Beatriz S ^a,b   Souto, Ricardo P ^a,c   Pedroso, Aurélio ^a   Zingales, Bianca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^c FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DO ABC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hybrid strains; Ribosomal cistrons; Transcription; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPIMASTIGOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037241821     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00270-0     Document Type: Article

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