The composition of untranslated regions in Trypanosoma cruzi genes

Parasitology International

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-219

  Brandão, Adeilton ^a   Jiang, Taijiao ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Simple Sequence Repeat; SSR; Transcription; Trinucleotide; Trypanosoma cruzi; Untranslated region; UTR

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OPEN READING FRAMES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 67650434056     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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