The evolution of two Trypanosoma cruzi subgroups inferred from rRNA genes can be correlated with the interchange of American mammalian faunas in the Cenozoic and has implications to pathogenicity and host specificity

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 219-232

  Briones, Marcelo R S ^a   Souto, Ricardo P ^b   Stolf, Beatriz S ^b   Zingales, Bianca ^b  

^a Imunologia Parasitol Esc P   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Evolution; Phylogenetic inference; rDNA; Trypanosomes

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIA; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SOUTH AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CAVIOMORPHA; ENDOTRYPANUM; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 0032720058     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00155-3     Document Type: Article

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