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Population structure of Toxoplasma gondii: clonal expansion driven by infrequent recombination and selective sweeps.

Annual review of microbiology - 1 Jan 2008

Sibley L David, Ajioka James W

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Toxoplasma gondii is among the most successful parasites. It is capable of infecting all warm-blooded animals and causing opportunistic disease in humans. T. gondii has a striking clonal population structure consisting of three predominant lineages in North America and Europe. Clonality is associated with the recent emergence of a monomorphic version of Chr1a, which drove a selective genetic sweep within the past...

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PMID: 18544039
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.62.081307.162925

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