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Nucleotide sequences provide evidence of genetic exchange among distantly related lineages of <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i>
19 Jun 2001
Abstract excerpt
Simple phylogenetic tests were applied to a large data set of nucleotide sequences from two nuclear genes and a region of the mitochondrial genome of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas' disease. Incongruent gene genealogies manifest genetic exchange among distantly related lineages of T. cruzi. Two widely distributed isoenzyme types of T. cruzi are hybrids, their genetic composition being the likely result of...
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