Linkage group selection: Towards identifying genes controlling strain specific protective immunity in malaria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Pattaradilokrat, Sittiporn ^a   Cheesman, Sandra J ^a   Carter, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LINKAGE GROUP; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CROSS; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROGENY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; GENE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY;

MUS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI CHABAUDI; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 41149153805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000857     Document Type: Article

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