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Uncovering Genomic Regions Associated with Trypanosoma Infections in Wild Populations of the Tsetse Fly Glossina fuscipes.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 2 Mar 2018
Gloria-Soria Andrea, Dunn W Augustine, Yu Xiaoqing, Vigneron Aurélien, Lee Kuang-Yao, Li Mo, Weiss Brian L, Zhao Hongyu, Aksoy Serap, Caccone Adalgisa
Abstract excerpt
Vector-borne diseases are responsible for > 1 million deaths every year but genomic resources for most species responsible for their transmission are limited. This is true for neglected diseases such as sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis), a disease caused by Trypanosoma parasites vectored by several species of tseste flies within the genus Glossina We describe an integrative approach that...
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