Evolution of tubulin gene arrays in trypanosomatid parasites: Genomic restructuring in Leishmania

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jackson, Andrew P ^b   Vaughan, Sue ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLATE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE ORDER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TUBULIN;

BODONIDAE; EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 33750618115     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-261     Document Type: Article

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