Molecular characterization of a Theileria lestoquardi gene encoding for immunogenic protein splice variants

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 161-170

  Bakheit, M A ^a,b   Scholzen, T ^a   Ahmed, J S ^a   Seitzer, U ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; DNA LIBRARY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; IMMUNOGENICITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SERUM; SHEEP; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIA LESTOQUARDI; THEILERIA PARVA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; THEILERIA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIA LESTOQUARDI; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 33751208654     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0255-3     Document Type: Article

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