"Everything you always wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask)" in Leishmania after two decades of laboratory and field analyses

PLoS Pathogens

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

  Rougeron, Virginie ^a   de Meeûs, Thierry ^a,b   Ouraga, Sandrine Kako ^a   Hide, Mallorie ^a   Bañuls, Anne Laure ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HETEROZYGOSITY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; LEISHMANIA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

HEXAPODA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

LEISHMANIA; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 77958140034     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001004     Document Type: Review

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