Hard tick calreticulin (CRT) gene coding regions have only one intron with conserved positions and variable sizes

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1326-1331

  Xu, Guang ^a   Fang, Quentin Q ^a   Sun, Yi ^a   Keirans, James E ^a   Durden, Lance A ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALRETICULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

PARASITOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRT GENE; DNA ISOLATION; ECTOPARASITE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALRETICULIN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; INTRONS; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACARI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 32544432548     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-344R1.1     Document Type: Article

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