A genomic scale map of genetic diversity in Trypanosoma cruzi

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ackermann, Alejandro A ^a   Panunzi, Leonardo G ^a   Cosentino, Raul O ^a   Sánchez, Daniel O ^a   Agüero, Fernán ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD; STOP CODON; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TETRA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84871554591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-736     Document Type: Article

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