Article
A clonal theory of parasitic protozoa: the population structures of Entamoeba, Giardia, Leishmania, Naegleria, Plasmodium, Trichomonas, and Trypanosoma and their medical and taxonomical consequences.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Apr 1990
Tibayrenc M, Kjellberg F, Ayala F J
Abstract excerpt
We propose a general theory of clonal reproduction for parasitic protozoa, which has important medical and biological consequences. Many parasitic protozoa have been assumed to reproduce sexually, because of diploidy and occasional sexuality in the laboratory. However, a population genetic analys...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Entamoeba
- Eukaryota
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Giardia
- Leishmania
- Models, Genetic
- Naegleria
- Plasmodium
- Ploidies
- Probability
- Recombination, Genetic
- Trichomonas
- Trypanosoma