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Farming, slaving and enslavement: histories of endosymbioses during kinetoplastid evolution
13 Jun 2018
Abstract excerpt
Parasitic trypanosomatids diverged from free-living kinetoplastid ancestors several hundred million years ago. These parasites are relatively well known, due in part to several unusual cell biological and molecular traits and in part to the significance of a few - pathogenic Leishmania and Trypanosoma species - as aetiological agents of serious neglected tropical diseases. However, the majority of trypanosomatid...
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