Constitutive mosaic aneuploidy is a unique genetic feature widespread in the Leishmania genus

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-66

  Lachaud, Laurence ^a,b   Bourgeois, Nathalie ^a,b,c   Kuk, Nada ^a   Morelle, Christelle ^a,b,c   Crobu, Lucien ^b   Merlin, Gilles ^b   Bastien, Patrick ^a,b,c   Pagès, Michel ^b   Sterkers, Yvon ^a,b,c  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b University de Montpellier   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Chromosome; Genetic exchange; Genome; Leishmania; Mosaicism

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HAPLOIDY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC EXCHANGE; GENOME; LEISHMANIA; MOSAICISM;

ANEUPLOIDY; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEISHMANIA; MOSAICISM;

EID: 84892450154     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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