Anatomy and evolution of telomeric and subtelomeric regions in the human protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Moraes Barros, Roberto R ^a   Marini, Marjorie M ^a   Antônio, Cristiane R ^a   Cortez, Danielle R ^a   Miyake, Andrea M ^a   Lima, Fábio M ^a   Ruiz, Jeronimo C ^b   Bartholomeu, Daniella C ^c   Chiurillo, Miguel A ^d   Ramirez, José L ^e   da Silveira, José F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTROCCIDENTAL LISANDRO ALVARADO   (Venezuela)

^e Fundacion Instituto de Estudios Avanzados IDEA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; RNA HELICASE; SIALIDASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRANS SIALIDASE; TRANS-SIALIDASE;

ACYLTRANSFERASE GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSED GENE FAMILY 1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIALIDASE GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTENY; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHROMOSOMES; CONTIG MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; NEURAMINIDASE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA HELICASES; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84861952937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-229     Document Type: Article

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