Genetic exchange and emergence of novel strains in directly transmitted trypanosomatids

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 564-571

  Schmid Hempel, Regula ^a   Salathé, Rahel ^a,b   Tognazzo, Martina ^a   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris; Crithidia bombi; Genetic exchange; Novel genotypes; Protozoan parasite; Recombination; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; CRITHIDIA; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 79953106114     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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