Isolation of polymorphic microsatellite loci from the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 159-163

  Nakao, Minoru ^a   Sako, Yasuhito ^a   Ito, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echinococcus multilocularis; Heterozygosity; Microsatellite DNA

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TANDEM REPEAT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FOXES; GENE LIBRARY; HETEROZYGOTE; JAPAN; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

CANIDAE; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS;

EID: 0141716999     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1348(03)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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