The Emergence of Resistance to the Benzimidazole Anthlemintics in Parasitic Nematodes of Livestock Is Characterised by Multiple Independent Hard and Soft Selective Sweeps

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Redman, Elizabeth ^a   Whitelaw, Fiona ^b   Tait, Andrew ^b   Burgess, Charlotte ^c   Bartley, Yvonne ^c   Skuce, Philip John ^c   Jackson, Frank ^c   Gilleard, John Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; BETA TUBULIN; BENZIMIDAZOLE; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; LIVESTOCK; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; ALLELE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HAEMONCHUS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BASE SEQUENCE; BENZIMIDAZOLES; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAEMONCHUS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SHEEP; TUBULIN;

EID: 84924054965     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003494     Document Type: Article

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