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Recent hybridization between Taenia asiatica and Taenia saginata.
Parasitology international - 1 Jun 2012
Yamane Kanako, Suzuki Yumi, Tachi Eiko, Li Tiaoying, Chen Xingwang, Nakao Minoru, Nkouawa Agathe, Yanagida Testuya, Sako Yasuhito, Ito Akira, Sato Hiroshi, Okamoto Munehiro
Abstract excerpt
Five Taenia tapeworms collected from humans in Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China, where three species of human Taenia are sympatrically endemic, were examined for the mitochondrial cox1 gene and two nuclear genes, ef1 and elp. Phylogenetic analyses of these genes revealed that two adult worms showed nuclear-mitochondrial discordance, suggesting that they originated from hybridization between Taenia saginata and...
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