The Mating Competence of Geographically Diverse Leishmania major Strains in Their Natural and Unnatural Sand Fly Vectors

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Inbar, Ehud ^a   Akopyants, Natalia S ^b   Charmoy, Melanie ^a   Romano, Audrey ^a   Lawyer, Phillip ^a   Elnaiem, Dia Eldin A ^a   Kauffmann, Florence ^a   Barhoumi, Mourad ^a   Grigg, Michael ^a   Owens, Katherine ^b   Fay, Michael ^a   Dobson, Deborah E ^b   Shaik, Jahangheer ^b   Beverley, Stephen M ^b   Sacks, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MAXICIRCLE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; GENE EXCHANGE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC LINE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HYBRID; INHERITANCE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MATING; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLEBOTOMUS DUBOSCQI; PROGENY; PROMASTIGOTE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; COINFECTION; DNA, KINETOPLAST; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PHLEBOTOMUS; PSYCHODIDAE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84880764832     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003672     Document Type: Article

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