Growing diversity of trypanosomatid parasites of flies (Diptera: Brachycera): Frequent cosmopolitism and moderate host specificity

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 255-264

  Týč, Jiří ^a,b   Votýpka, Jan ^a,c   Klepetková, Helena ^c   Šuláková, Hana ^d   Jirků, Milan ^a,b   Lukeš, Julius ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Institute of Criminalistics Prague   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Diversity; Geographic distribution; Host specificity; Leishmania; Phylogeny; Trypanosomatida

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DIPTERA; DIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST RANGE; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMATIDA;

DIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; LEISHMANIA; PHYLOGENY; TRYPANOSOMATIDA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIPTERA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; LATIN AMERICA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

BLASTOCRITHIDIA; BRACHYCERA; DIPTERA; HERPETOMONAS; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; KINETOPLASTIDA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 84880163066     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.024     Document Type: Article

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