Interest and limitations of Spliced Leader Intergenic Region sequences for analyzing Trypanosoma cruzi I phylogenetic diversity in the Argentinean Chaco

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 300-307

  Tomasini, Nicolás ^a   Lauthier, Juan J ^a   Rumi, María M Monje ^a   Ragone, Paula G ^a   D'Amato, Anahí A Alberti ^a   Brandan, Cecilia Pérez ^a   Cura, Carolina I ^c   Schijman, Alejandro G ^c   Barnabé, Christian ^b   Tibayrenc, Michel ^b   Basombrío, Miguel A ^a   Falla, Alejandra ^d   Herrera, Claudia ^d   Guhl, Felipe ^d   Diosque, Patricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^b Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Evolution; Miniexon; Multiple ambiguous alignments; Parasitology

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICED LEADER INTERGENIC REGION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 79951960312     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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