Admixture and recombination among Toxoplasma gondii lineages explain global genome diversity

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

Volumn 109, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 13458-13463

  Minot, Samuel ^a,b   Melo, Mariane B ^a   Li, Fugen ^a   Lu, Diana ^a   Niedelman, Wendy ^a   Levine, Stuart S ^a   Saeij, Jeroen P J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Hapmap; Pathogen; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84865191421     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117047109     Document Type: Article

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