Biological variation among African trypanosomes: I. Clonal expression of virulence is not linked to the variant surface glycoprotein or the variant surface glycoprotein gene telomeric expression site

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 215-227

  Inverso, Jill A ^a,c   Uphoff, Timothy S ^a,d   Johnson, Scott C ^a,e   Paulnock, Donna M ^a,b   Mansfield, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^e Iogenetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOME; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

EID: 77952394093     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2009.0991     Document Type: Article

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