How clonal are Trypanosoma and Leishmania?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 264-269

  Tibayrenc, Michel ^a,b   Ayala, Francisco J ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonality; Homogamy; Kinetoplastida; Linkage disequilibrium; Molecular epidemiology; Population genetics; Preponderant clonal evolution; Selfing

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; APPLIED RESEARCH; BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; CLONAL VARIATION; DNA REPAIR; FUNGUS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTOZOON; PURIFYING SELECTION; REVIEW; TAXONOMY; TRYPANOSOMA; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LEISHMANIA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84878198590     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2013.03.007     Document Type: Review

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