Bottlenecks and the maintenance of minor genotypes during the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei.

African trypanosomes are digenetic parasites that undergo part of their developmental cycle in mammals and part in tsetse flies. We established a novel technique to monitor the population dynamics of Trypanosoma brucei throughout its life cycle while minimising the confounding factors of strain diff...

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Main Authors: Michael Oberle, Oliver Balmer, Reto Brun, Isabel Roditi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2912391?pdf=render