The complete mitochondrial genome of human parasitic roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 91-93

  Park, Yung Chul ^a   Kim, Won ^b   Park, Joong Ki ^c  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Human parasite; Mitochondrial genome

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; GENE SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, HELMINTH; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; NEMATODA;

EID: 80155210274     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2011.624608     Document Type: Article

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