A new system for rapid plasmid integration in Plasmodium parasites

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-6

  Crabb, Brendan S ^a   Gilson, Paul R ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BXB1 PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM; TRANSFECTION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 33845988781     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.11.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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