Genome organization of major tandem repeats in the hard tick, Ixodes scapularis

Chromosome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-370

  Meyer, Jason M ^a   Kurtti, Timothy J ^b   Van Zee, Janice P ^a   Hill, Catherine A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromere; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Heterochromatin; Ixodes scapularis; Ixodidae; Tandem repeat; Telomere

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; DNA; DNA PROBE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME NOR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IXODES SCAPULARIS; KARYOTYPE; LYME DISEASE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TANDEM REPEAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PROBE; GENETICS; GENOME; IXODES; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA; DNA PROBES; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOFTWARE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE;

IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 77954564747     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-010-9120-4     Document Type: Article

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