Trypanosoma cruzi: Sequence analysis of the variable region of kinetoplast minicircles

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 279-288

  Telleria, Jenny ^a   Lafay, Bénédicte ^a   Virreira, Myrna ^b   Barnabé, Christian ^a   Tibayrenc, Michel ^a   Svoboda, Michal ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DTU (Discrete Typing Units); Editing; Evolution; Hypervariable domain; Kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) polymorphism; Minicircles; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAGELLATE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KINETOPLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33750355013     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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