Alternative lifestyles: The population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi

Acta Tropica

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 35-43

  Sturm, Nancy R ^a   Campbell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion; Genetics; Heterozygosity; Hybrid; Kinetoplast

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYBRIDIZATION; PARASITE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLADISTICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOIDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TAXONOMY; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77953025288     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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