Sequence diversity and evolution of multigene families in Trypanosoma cruzi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Cerqueira, Gustavo C ^a   Bartholomeu, Daniella C ^b   DaRocha, Wanderson D ^a   Hou, Lihua ^b   Freitas Silva, Danielle M ^a   Machado, Carlos Renato ^a   El Sayed, Najib M ^b   Teixeira, Santuza M R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amastin; Gene conversion; Genetic diversity; Multigene families; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RNA BINDING; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 36348960649     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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