Globally diverse Toxoplasma gondii isolates comprise six major clades originating from a small number of distinct ancestral lineages

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5844-5849

  Su, Chunlei ^a   Khan, Asis ^b   Zhou, Peng ^c   Majumdar, Debashree ^a   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^d,e   Dardé, Marie Laure ^d,e   Zhu, Xing Quan ^c   Ajioka, James W ^f   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ^g   Dubey, Jitender P ^g   Sibley, L David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inheritance; Population structure; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CLADISTICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; INTRONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84859609287     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203190109     Document Type: Article

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