Centromere-associated repeat arrays on Trypanosoma brucei chromosomes are much more extensive than predicted

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Echeverry, Maria C ^a,b   Bot, Christopher ^a   Obado, Samson O ^a,c   Taylor, Martin C ^a   Kelly, John M ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; GENOME; TANDEM REPEAT;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

CENTROMERE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 84855901677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-29     Document Type: Article

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