Two main clusters within Trypanosoma cruzi zymodeme 3 are defined by distinct regions of the ribosomal RNA cistron

Parasitology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 177-184

  Mendonca M B A ^a,d   Nehme, N S ^a   Santos, S S ^a   Cupolillo, E ^a   Vargas, N ^c   Junqueira, A ^a   Naiff, R D ^b   Barrett, T V ^b   Coura, J R ^a   Zingales, B ^c   Fernandes, O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon region; Internal transcribed spacers; Mini exon gene; Ribosomal RNA cistron; Trypanosoma cruzi; Zymodeme 3

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; ISOENZYME; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZYMODEME 3;

ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANSTRONGYLUS; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHODNIUS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PANSTRONGYLUS; PANSTRONGYLUS GENICULATUS; PROTOZOA; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS BRETHESI; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 18244367435     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182001001172     Document Type: Article

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