Demonstration of genetic exchange during cyclical development of Leishmania in the sand fly vector

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5924, 2009, Pages 265-268

  Akopyants, Natalia S ^a   Kimblin, Nicola ^b   Secundino, Nagila ^b   Patrick, Rachel ^b   Peters, Nathan ^b   Lawyer, Phillip ^b   Dobson, Deborah E ^a   Beverley, Stephen M ^a   Sacks, David L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN;

DNA; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYBRID; PROTOZOAN; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; GENE EXCHANGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HYBRID; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMASTIGOTE; PSYCHODIDAE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 64849083163     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1169464     Document Type: Article

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