Promoter regions of Plasmodium vivax are poorly or not recognized by Plasmodium falciparum

Malaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Azevedo, Mauro F ^a,b   Del Portillo, Hernando A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Barcelona Center for International Health and Research ^*  (Brazil)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LUCIFERASES; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 33847266249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-6-20     Document Type: Article

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