A single chromosome unexpectedly links highly divergent isolates of Toxoplasma gondii

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-3

  Walzer, Katelyn A ^a   Boyle, Jon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 1; CLONAL VARIATION; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84857866244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00284-11     Document Type: Article

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