Giardia duodenalis: genetic recombination and its implications for taxonomy and molecular epidemiology.

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Traditionally, species within the Giardia genus have been considered as eukaryotic organisms that show an absence of sexual reproduction in their simple life cycles. This apparent lack of sex has been challenged by a number of studies that have demonstrated (i) the presence in the Giardia duodenalis genome of true homologs of genes specifically involved in meiosis in other eukaryotes, and their stage-specific...

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