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Bottlenecks and the maintenance of minor genotypes during the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei.
PLoS pathogens - 29 Jul 2010
Oberle Michael, Balmer Oliver, Brun Reto, Roditi Isabel
Abstract excerpt
African trypanosomes are digenetic parasites that undergo part of their developmental cycle in mammals and part in tsetse flies. We established a novel technique to monitor the population dynamics of Trypanosoma brucei throughout its life cycle while minimising the confounding factors of strain differences or variation in fitness. Clones derived from a single trypanosome were tagged with short synthetic DNA...
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