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Phylogenetic evidence for recombination in SAG5 locus in Toxoplasma gondii.
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology - 1 Aug 2008
Elsheikha Hany, Hafez Adel O, Zaalouk Tarek K H, El Shazly Atef M, Khalil Hazem H H, Morsy Tosson A
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The present study evaluated the hypothesis that genetic diversity in SAG5 genes was generated by recombination events. Three lines of evidence suggested that recombination occurred in SAG5 genes in T. gondii. The permutation test revealed strong signature of intragenic recombination, pairwise comparisons of nucleotide sequences of SAG5 genes revealed that SAG5A alleles have chimerical structures composed of...
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