Is Leishmania (Viannia) peruviana a distinct species? A MLEE/RAPD evolutionary genetics answer

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 197-207

  Bañuls, Anne Laure ^a   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^b   Guerrini, Francoise ^a   De Doncker, Simonne ^b   Jacquet, Diane ^b   Arevalo, Jorge ^c   Noël, Sebastien ^a   Le Ray, Dominique ^b   Tibayrenc, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

Clade; Clone; Discrete typing unit; Speciation; Statistical type II error

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINKAGE; MONOPHYLY; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; PERU; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DUJARDIN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA;

EID: 0034038127     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2000.tb00039.x     Document Type: Article

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