Comparative Life Cycle Transcriptomics Revises Leishmania mexicana Genome Annotation and Links a Chromosome Duplication with Parasitism of Vertebrates.

Leishmania spp. are protozoan parasites that have two principal life cycle stages: the motile promastigote forms that live in the alimentary tract of the sandfly and the amastigote forms, which are adapted to survive and replicate in the harsh conditions of the phagolysosome of mammalian macrophages...

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Main Authors: Michael Fiebig, Steven Kelly, Eva Gluenz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-10-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4599935?pdf=render