Genetic exchange within and between assemblages of Giardia duodenalis

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 504-518

  Lasek Nesselquist, Erica ^a,b   Welch, David Mark ^b   Thompson, Richard Christopher Andrew ^c   Steuart, Robert F ^c   Sogin, Mitchell L ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Josephine Bay Paul Centre for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution   (United States)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity; Hybridization; Meiotic sex; Recombination; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

DIVERGENCE; FLAGELLATE; GENE FLOW; GENE TRANSFER; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE; RECOMBINATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPECIES COMPLEX; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOGS; GENETIC VARIATION; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 70350512840     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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