Trypanosoma evansi: Genetic variability detected using amplified restriction fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of Kenyan isolates

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 147-153

  Masiga, Daniel K ^a,b   Ndung'u, Kariuki ^c   Tweedie, Alison ^d   Tait, Andrew ^d   Turner, C Michael R ^a,d  

^a IBLS   (United Kingdom)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFLP; Polymorphism; RAPD; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosoma evansi

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KENYA; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; CAMELS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; KENYA; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TSETSE FLIES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI;

EID: 33749648742     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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