The frequency of gene targeting in Trypanosoma brucei is independent of target site copy number

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 3993-4000

  Wickstead, Bill ^a,b   Ersfeld, Klaus ^a   Gull, Keith ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LEISHMANIA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; YEAST; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; TUBULIN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TUBULIN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0242380639     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg445     Document Type: Article

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