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Genotype diversity in the honey bee parasite Nosema ceranae: multi-strain isolates, cryptic sex or both?
BMC evolutionary biology - 18 Oct 2016
Sagastume Soledad, Martín-Hernández Raquel, Higes Mariano, Henriques-Gil Nuno
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BACKGROUND: There is great controversy as to whether Microsporidia undergo a sexual cycle. In the paradigmatic case of Nosema ceranae, although there is no morphological evidence of sex, some meiosis-specific genes are present in its reduced genome and there is also high intraspecific variability, with incongruent phylogenies having been systematically obtained. The possibility of sexual recombination is...
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