The Trypanosoma rangeli histone H2A gene sequence serves as a differential marker for KP1 strains

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 401-409

  Cuervo, Claudia ^a   López, Manuel Carlos ^b   Puerta, Concepción ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Histone H2A; KP1 minicircle; Low stringency single specific primer polymerase chain reaction (LSSP PCR); Trypanosoma rangeli KP1(+); Trypanosoma rangeli KP1( )

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HISTONE H2A; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOMICS; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 33745637756     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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