Recent, independent and anthropogenic origins of Trypanosoma cruzi hybrids

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Lewis, Michael D ^a   Llewellyn, Martin S ^a   Yeo, Matthew ^a   Acosta, Nidia ^a,b   Gaunt, Michael W ^a   Miles, Michael A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de Asuncion   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STRAIN; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HYBRID; INTROGRESSION; MEIOSIS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PROGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 80055084610     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001363     Document Type: Article

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