Conserved organization of genes in trypanosomatids

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-264

  Bringaud, Frédéric ^a   Vedrenne, Cécile ^a   Cuvillier, Armelle ^a   Parzy, Daniel ^b   Baltz, Dominique ^a   Tetaud, Emmanuel ^a   Pays, Etienne ^c   Venegas, Juan ^a   Merlin, Gilles ^a   Baltz, Théo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flanking gene; Gene organization; Glucose transporter; Leishmania; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA;

EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 18544393818     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00080-2     Document Type: Article

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