Genetics: Leishmania exploit sex

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5924, 2009, Pages 187-189

  Miles, Michael A ^a   Yeo, Matthew ^a   Mauricio, Isabel L ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE TRANSFER; LESION; PARASITIC DISEASE; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CHROMATID EXCHANGE; CLONAL VARIATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRULENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MICE; PSYCHODIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 64849085799     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172789     Document Type: Short Survey

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