Just one cross appears capable of dramatically altering the population biology of a eukaryotic pathogen like Toxoplasma gondii

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 10514-10519

  Boyle, Jon P ^a   Rajasekar, Badri ^a   Saeij, Jeroen P J ^a   Ajioka, James W ^b   Berriman, Matthew ^c   Paulsen, Ian ^d   Roos, David S ^e   Sibley, L David ^f   White, Michael W ^g   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal population structure; Genetic recombination; Virulence

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EUROPE; FOWL; GENEALOGY; GENETIC CROSS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HOST; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TOXOPLASMA;

APICOMPLEXA; AVES; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33745913320     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510319103     Document Type: Article

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