A monomorphic haplotype of chromosome ia is associated with widespread success in clonal and nonclonal populations of Toxoplasma gondii

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Khan, Asis ^a   Miller, Natalie ^b   Roos, David S ^b   Dubey, J P ^c   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^d   Dardé, Marie Laure ^d   Ajioka, James W ^e   Rosenthal, Benjamin ^c   David Sibley, L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 1A; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84855226755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00228-11     Document Type: Article

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