Chromosomal differentiation of schistosomes: What is the message?

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Hirai, Hirohisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; C BANDING; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME C BAND; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PHENOTYPE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMA SINENSIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE; CHIASMATIC CISTERN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HETEROCHROMATIN; KARYOTYPING; REVIEW; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 84906273819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00301     Document Type: Article

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