Ecological divergence and hybridization of Neotropical Leishmania parasites
Ecological divergence and hybridization of Neotropical Leishmania parasites
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Van den Broeck, Frederik , Savill, Nicholas J. , Imamura, Hideo , Sanders, Mandy , Maes, Ilse , Cooper, Sinclair , Mateus, David , Jara, Marlene , Adaui, Vanessa , Arevalo, Jorge , Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro , Garcia, Lineth , Cupolillo, Elisa , Miles, Michael , Berriman, Matthew , Schnaufer, Achim , Cotton, James A. and Dujardin, Jean-Claude
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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The tropical Andes are an important natural laboratory to understand speciation in many taxa. Here we examined the evolutionary history of parasites of the Leishmania braziliensis species complex based on whole-genome sequencing of 67 isolates from 47 localities in Peru. We first show the origin of Andean Leishmania as a clade of near-clonal lineag...
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Ecological divergence and hybridization of Neotropical Leishmania parasites
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Author / Creator
Savill, Nicholas J.
Imamura, Hideo
Sanders, Mandy
Maes, Ilse
Cooper, Sinclair
Mateus, David
Jara, Marlene
Adaui, Vanessa
Arevalo, Jorge
Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro
Garcia, Lineth
Cupolillo, Elisa
Miles, Michael
Berriman, Matthew
Schnaufer, Achim
Cotton, James A.
Dujardin, Jean-Claude
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7547230
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7547230
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1920136117
