Secondary mutations correct fitness defects in Toxoplasma gondii with dinitroaniline resistance mutations

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 845-856

  Ma, Christopher ^a   Tran, Johnson ^a   Li, Catherine ^a   Ganesan, Lakshmi ^a   Wood, David ^a   Morrissette, Naomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; TUBULIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ETHAFLURALIN; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; ORYZALIN; SULFANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE; TRIFLURALIN; TUBULIN MODULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TOXOPLASMA;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERTEBRATA;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; DINITROBENZENES; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SULFANILAMIDES; TOXOPLASMA; TRIFLURALIN; TUBULIN; TUBULIN MODULATORS;

EID: 58149337610     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.092494     Document Type: Article

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