Cross-species genetic exchange between visceral and cutaneous strains of Leishmania in the sand fly vector

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 16808-16813

  Romano, Audrey ^a   Inbar, Ehud ^a   Debrabant, Alain ^b   Charmoy, Melanie ^a   Lawyer, Phillip ^a   Ribeiro Gomes, Flavia ^a   Barhoumi, Mourad ^a   Grigg, Michael ^a   Shaik, Jahangheer ^c   Dobson, Deborah ^c   Beverley, Stephen M ^c   Sacks, David L ^a  

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

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic exchange; Leishmania; Sand fly

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLONE; FEMALE; GENETIC EXCHANGE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHODIDAE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

ANIMALS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSYCHODIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84913550611     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415109111     Document Type: Article

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