Trypanosoma cruzi: Allelic comparisons of the actin genes and analysis of their transcripts

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 27-34

  Cevallos, Ana María ^a   López Villaseñor, Imelda ^a   Espinosa, Norma ^a   Herrera, Juliana ^a   Hernández, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Gene structure; Kinetoplastid; mRNA; Protozoa; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA STABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEADY STATE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ACTINS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE EXPRESSION; HALF-LIFE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0038148062     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00066-3     Document Type: Article

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