Two hybridization events define the population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 527-543

  Westenberger, Scott J ^a   Barnabé, Christian ^b   Campbell, David A ^a   Sturm, Nancy R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 31544467265     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.038745     Document Type: Article

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