Extreme inbreeding in Leishmania braziliensis

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

Volumn 106, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 10224-10229

  Rougeron, Virginie ^a   De Meeûs, Thierry ^a   Hide, Mallorie ^a   Waleckx, Etienne ^a   Bermudez, Herman ^b   Arevalo, Jorge ^c   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^c   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^d   De Doncker, Simone ^d   Le Ray, Dominique ^d   Ayala, Francisco J ^e   Bañuls, Anne Laure ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonality; Endogamyl; Heterozygote defiency; Microsatellites; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PERU; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; VIANNIA;

EID: 67649861348     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904420106     Document Type: Article

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