DNA sequence artifacts and the estimation of time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-147

  Barry, Alyssa E ^a   Leliwa, Aleksandra ^a   Choi, Mehee ^b   Nielsen, Kaare M ^c   Hartl, Daniel L ^b   Day, Karen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Plasmodium falciparum; SNP; TMRCA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CODON; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0142106992     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(03)00164-6     Document Type: Article

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