Contemporary cryptic sexuality in Trypanosoma cruzi

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 4216-4226

  Ramírez, Juan David ^a   Guhl, Felipe ^a   Messenger, Louisa A ^b   Lewis, Michael D ^b   Montilla, Marleny ^c   Cucunuba, Zulma ^c   Miles, Michael A ^c   Llewellyn, Martin S ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

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

Author keywords

disease biology; empirical; evolution of sex; molecular evolution; parasitology; population genetics; protists

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84865486319     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05699.x     Document Type: Article

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