Taenia asiatica and Taenia saginata: Genetic divergence estimated from their mitochondrial genomes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-61

  Jeon, H K ^a   Eom, K S ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial genome; RFLP; Sequence divergence; Taenia asiatica; Taenia saginata

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TAENIA; TAENIA ASIATICA; TAENIA SAGINATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TAENIA; TAENIA SAGINATA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TAENIA ASIATICA; TAENIA SAGINATA;

EID: 33646028196     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.11.018     Document Type: Article

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