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Extremely reduced levels of heterozygosity in the vertebrate pathogen Encephalitozoon cuniculi.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Apr 2013
Selman Mohammed, Sak Bohumil, Kváč Martin, Farinelli Laurent, Weiss Louis M, Corradi Nicolas
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The genomes of microsporidia in the genus Encephalitozoon have been extensively studied for their minimalistic features, but they have seldom been used to investigate basic characteristics of the biology of these organisms, such as their ploidy or their mode of reproduction. In the present study, we aimed to tackle this issue by mapping Illumina sequence reads against the genomes of four strains of E. cuniculi....
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