Sexual recombination punctuated by outbreaks and clonal expansions predicts Toxoplasma gondii population genetics

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 925-933

  Grigg, Michael E ^a   Sundar, Natarajan ^a  

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

Author keywords

Clonality; Outbreaks; Population genetics; Sexual recombination; Toxoplasma gondii; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; FELID; GENE FLOW; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PROTOZOAN; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

CLONAL VARIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERTEBRATE; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CAT; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FORECASTING; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KOREA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MEIOSIS; OOCYST; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSMISSION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AVES; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERTEBRATA;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS; CATS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; FORECASTING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; KOREA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MEIOSIS; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 65549091377     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.02.005     Document Type: Review

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