Widespread variation in transcript abundance within and across developmental stages of Trypanosoma brucei

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 482-

  Jensen, Bryan C ^a   Sivam, Dhileep ^a,b   Kifer, Charles T ^a   Myler, Peter J ^a,b   Parsons, Marilyn ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE CYCLE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 70450253253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-482     Document Type: Article

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