Genome analyses suggest the presence of polyploidy and recent human-driven expansions in eight global populations of the honeybee pathogen Nosema ceranae

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4443-4458

  Pelin, Adrian ^a   Selman, Mohammed ^a   Aris Brosou, Stéphane ^a   Farinelli, Laurent ^b   Corradi, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Fasteris   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BEE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSEMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; DNA, FUNGAL; GEOGRAPHY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NOSEMA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYPLOIDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84949323639     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12883     Document Type: Article

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