Microhomology-mediated deletion and gene conversion in African trypanosomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1372-1380

  Glover, Lucy ^a   Jun, Junho ^a   Horn, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; RAD51 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

CHROMOSOMES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE CONVERSION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 79952352962     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq981     Document Type: Article

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