Babesia bovis: Transcriptional analysis of rRNA gene unit expression

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-50

  Laughery, Jacob M ^a   Lau, Audrey O T ^a   White, Stephen N ^b   Howell, Jeanne M ^b   Suarez, Carlos E ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia bovis; Ribosomal RNA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BABESIA BOVIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS MICROPLUS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; BABESIA BOVIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CATTLE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

APICOMPLEXA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOS; BOVINAE; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 67949124548     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.05.016     Document Type: Article

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