Intragenomic spliced leader RNA array analysis of kinetoplastids reveals unexpected transcribed region diversity in Trypanosoma cruzi

Gene

Volumn 352, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 100-108

  Thomas, Sean ^a,b   Westenberger, Scott J ^b   Campbell, David A ^a,b   Sturm, Nancy R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concerted evolution; Gene array; Leishmania major; Mini exon gene; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLAGELLATE; GENE MUTATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 20444389761     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.04.002     Document Type: Article

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