Evidence for genetic exchange and hybridization in Trypanosoma cruzi based on nucleotide sequences and molecular karyotype

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 173-183

  Brisse, Sylvain ^a   Henriksson, Jan ^b   Barnabé, Christian ^a   Douzery, Emmanuel J P ^c   Berkvens, Dirk ^d   Serrano, Myrna ^e   De Carvalho, Maria Ruth C ^e   Buck, Gregory A ^e   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^d   Tibayrenc, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosomal size variation; Congruence test; Cytochrome b; Evolution; Molecular phylogeny; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; NUCLEAR RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KARYOTYPE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037297395     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1348(02)00097-7     Document Type: Article

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