Bottlenecks and the maintenance of minor genotypes during the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Oberle, Michael ^a,b,c   Balmer, Oliver ^b   Brun, Reto ^a   Roditi, Isabel ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOST; INFECTION; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TSETSE FLY; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; GENETICS; GLOSSINIDAE; INTESTINE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; GENOTYPE; INTESTINES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 77957689124     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001023     Document Type: Article

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