Novel insights into genome plasticity in Eukaryotes: Mosaic aneuploidy in Leishmania

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-23

  Sterkers, Yvon ^a,b,c   Lachaud, Laurence ^a,b   Bourgeois, Nathalie ^a,b,c   Crobu, Lucien ^b   Bastien, Patrick ^a,b,c   Pagès, Michel ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b University de Montpellier   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL POPULATION; DISOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; LEISHMANIA; MONOSOMY; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRISOMY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANEUPLOIDY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LEISHMANIA;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84867077750     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08185.x     Document Type: Review

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