Analyses of 32 loci clarify phylogenetic relationships among Trypanosoma cruzi lineages and support a single hybridization prior to human contact

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Flores López, Carlos A ^a   Machado, Carlos A ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CHAGAS DISEASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BAYES THEOREM; CHAGAS DISEASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84855998981     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001272     Document Type: Article

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