Structure analysis of two Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum satellite DNA families and evolution of their common monomeric sequence

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 557-567

  Clemente, Marina ^a   De Miguel, Natalia ^b   Lia, Veronica V ^c   Matrajt, Mariana ^d   Angel, Sergio O ^b,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

Author keywords

EST; Heterochromatin; Neospora caninum; Satellite DNA; Tandem repeat; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; PRIMER DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA, SATELLITE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; NEOSPORA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXOPLASMA;

NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 2342491554     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2578-3     Document Type: Article

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