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Sexual reproduction in a natural Trypanosoma cruzi population
20 May 2019
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sexual reproduction provides an evolutionary advantageous mechanism that combines favorable mutations that have arisen in separate lineages into the same individual. This advantage is especially pronounced in microparasites as allelic reassortment among individuals caused by sexual reproduction promotes allelic diversity at immune evasion genes within individuals which is often essential to evade host...
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