Genetic crosses in the apicomplexan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum define recombination parameters

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1432-1439

  Tanriverdi, Sultan ^a   Blain, J Craig ^b,c   Deng, Bingbing ^b,d   Ferdig, Michael T ^b   Widmer, Giovanni ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Sanaria ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OOCYSTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MUS;

EID: 33846996816     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05594.x     Document Type: Article

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