Admixture and recombination among Toxoplasma gondii lineages explain global genome diversity

Toxoplasma gondii is a highly successful protozoan parasite that infects all warm-blooded animals and causes severe disease in immunocompromised and immune-naïve humans. It has an unusual global population structure: In North America and Europe, isolated strains fall predominantly into four largely...

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Main Authors: Minot, Samuel (Contributor), Melo, Mariane Bandeira (Contributor), Li, Fugen (Contributor), Lu, Diana (Contributor), Neidelman, Wendy (Contributor), Levine, Stuart S. (Contributor), Saeij, Jeroen (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2013-03-06T20:47:57Z.
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