Sexual reproduction and genetic exchange in parasitic protists

Parasitology

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages S120-S127

  Weedall, Gareth D ^a   Hall, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

meiosis; Parasites; protists; sex

Indexed keywords

AMOEBOZOA; APICOMPLEXA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTE; GENDER; GIARDIA; HOST; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETOPLASTIDA; LIFE CYCLE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUALITY; TRICHOMONAS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; GENOME; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MEIOSIS; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84922646720     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014001693     Document Type: Review

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