The complete mitochondrial genomes for three Toxocara species of human and animal health significance

BMC Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Li, Ming Wei ^a,b   Lin, Rui Qing ^a   Song, Hui Qun ^a   Wu, Xiang Yun ^c   Zhu, Xing Quan ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TYROSINE; HELMINTH DNA; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HELMINTH RNA; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANISAKIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIROFILIRIA IMMITIS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARA CATI; TOXOCARA MALAYSIENSIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANIMALIA; ANISAKIS SIMPLEX; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SECERNENTEA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARA CATI; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENOME, HELMINTH; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, HELMINTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 44449110554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-224     Document Type: Article

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