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Evidence for weak genetic recombination at the PTP2 locus of Nosema ceranae.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2015
Gómez-Moracho Tamara, Bartolomé Carolina, Martín-Hernández Raquel, Higes Mariano, Maside Xulio
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The microsporidian Nosema ceranae is an emergent pathogen that threatens the health of honeybees and other pollinators all over the world. Its recent rapid spread across a wide variety of host species and environments demonstrated an enhanced ability of adaptation, which seems to contradict the lack of evidence for genetic recombination and the absence of a sexual stage in its life cycle. Here we retrieved fresh...
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