Characterization and tissue-specific expression patterns of the Plasmodium chabaudi cir multigene family

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ebbinghaus, Petra ^a   Krücken, Jürgen ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI INFECTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALARIA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 80052861360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-272     Document Type: Article

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