Multiple mitochondrial introgression events and heteroplasmy in Trypanosoma cruzi revealed by maxicircle MLST and next generation sequencing

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Messenger, Louisa A ^a   Llewellyn, Martin S ^a   Bhattacharyya, Tapan ^a   Franzén, Oscar ^b   Lewis, Michael D ^a   Ramírez, Juan David ^c   Carrasco, Hernan J ^d   Andersson, Björn ^b   Miles, Michael A ^a  

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

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUSCLE RING FINGER 1 PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 12S; CIRCULAR DNA;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; INTROGRESSION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84861204048     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001584     Document Type: Article

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