Discovery of mating in the major African livestock pathogen Trypanosoma congolense

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Morrison, Liam J ^a   Tweedie, Alison ^a   Black, Alana ^a   Pinchbeck, Gina L ^b   Christley, Robert M ^b   Schoenefeld, Andreas ^c   Hertz Fowler, Christiane ^d   MacLeod, Annette ^a   Turner, C Michael R ^a   Tait, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c International Trypanotolerance Centre Gambia   (Gambia)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMBIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MATING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

BOS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 65949089635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005564     Document Type: Article

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