The origin and evolution of the Leishmania donovani complex as inferred from a mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II gene sequence

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-68

  Ibrahim, Muntaser E ^a,b   Barker, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase; Evolution; Leishmania; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NASO HEXACANTHUS;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SUDAN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUDAN;

EID: 0009863788     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1348(01)00009-0     Document Type: Article

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