Trypanosoma cruzi: Exploring the nuclear genome of zymodeme 3 stocks by chromosome size polymorphism

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-76

  Pedroso, Aurélio ^a   Cupolillo, Elisa ^b   Zingales, Bianca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

absolute chromosomal size difference index; aCSDI; Chromosomal size polymorphism; EST; expression sequence tags; ME; minimum evolution; Molecular karyotype; PFGE; pulsed field gel electrophoresis; random amplified polymorphic DNA; RAPD; ribosomal RNA; rRNA; Trypanosoma cruzi; unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean; UPGMA; Z1,Z2,Z3; Zymodeme 3; zymodemes 1, 2, and 3

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME SIZE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ZYMODEME 3;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33947168263     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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