Genomic Confirmation of Hybridisation and Recent Inbreeding in a Vector-Isolated Leishmania Population

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rogers, Matthew B ^a,b,e   Downing, Tim ^a,f   Smith, Barbara A ^b   Imamura, Hideo ^a,c   Sanders, Mandy ^a   Svobodova, Milena ^d   Volf, Petr ^d   Berriman, Matthew ^a   Cotton, James A ^a   Smith, Deborah F ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL DIVISION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LIFE CYCLE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INBREEDING; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCTION; TURKEY;

EID: 84896704898     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004092     Document Type: Article

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