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Genomic confirmation of hybridisation and recent inbreeding in a vector-isolated Leishmania population.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2014
Rogers Matthew B, Downing Tim, Smith Barbara A, Imamura Hideo, Sanders Mandy, Svobodova Milena, Volf Petr, Berriman Matthew, Cotton James A, Smith Deborah F
Abstract excerpt
Although asexual reproduction via clonal propagation has been proposed as the principal reproductive mechanism across parasitic protozoa of the Leishmania genus, sexual recombination has long been suspected, based on hybrid marker profiles detected in field isolates from different geographical locations. The recent experimental demonstration of a sexual cycle in Leishmania within sand flies has confirmed the...
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