Molecular trees of trypanosomes incongruent with fossil records of hosts

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-30

  Kerr, Sara F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Euleishmania; Evolution; Leishmania; Paraleishmania; Trypanosoma; Trypanosomatidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; PHYLOGENY; TRYPANOSOMA;

CITRUS AURANTIIFOLIA; INVERTEBRATA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 33644526978     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-3-25     Document Type: Article

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