The sequence and analysis of Trypanosoma brucei chromosome II

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4856-4863

  El Sayed, Najib M A ^a,b   Ghedin, Elodie ^a,b   Song, Jinming ^a,i   MacLeod, Annette ^c   Bringaud, Frederic ^d   Larkin, Christopher ^a   Wanless, David ^a   Peterson, Jeremy ^a   Hou, Lihua ^a   Taylor, Sonya ^c   Tweedie, Alison ^c   Biteau, Nicolas ^d   Khalak, Hanif G ^a   Lin, Xiaoying ^a,j   Mason, Tanya ^a   Hannick, Linda ^a   Caler, Elisabet ^a   Blandin, Gaëlle ^a   Bartholomeu, Daniella ^a   Simpson, Anjana J ^a   Kaul, Samir ^a   Zhao, Hong ^a   Pai, Grace ^a   Van Aken, Susan ^a   Utterback, Teresa ^a   Haas, Brian ^a   Koo, Hean L ^a   Umayam, Lowell ^a   Suh, Bernard ^a   Gerrard, Caroline ^e   Leech, Vanessa ^e   Qi, Rong ^f,j   Zhou, Shiguo ^f   Schwartz, David ^f   Feldblyum, Tamara ^a   Salzberg, Steven ^a   Tait, Andrew ^c   Turner, C Michael R ^c   Ullu, Elisabetta ^g   White, Owen ^a   Melville, Sara ^e   Adams, Mark D ^a,j   Fraser, Claire M ^a,b   Donelson, John E ^h   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

ⁱ SANOFI   (France)

^j CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; GUANINE; RNA POLYMERASE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 10744232966     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg673     Document Type: Article

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