Gene conversions mediating antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei can occur in variant surface glycoprotein expression sites lacking 70-base-pair repeat sequences

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  1997

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  Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Publication date

  1997-02-01

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  Biology, Mathematics, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1128/MCB.17.2.833PMID 9001237PMCID PMC231809
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