Functional mapping of a trypanosome centromere by chromosome fragmentation identifies a 16-kb GC-rich transcriptional "strand-switch" domain as a major feature

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-43

  Obado, Samson O ^a   Taylor, Martin C ^a   Wilkinson, Shane R ^a   Bromley, Elizabeth V ^a,b   Kelly, John M ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSOMY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 12744273368     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2895105     Document Type: Article

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