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Meiosis and Haploid Gametes in the Pathogen Trypanosoma brucei

In eukaryote pathogens, sex is an important driving force in spreading genes for drug resistance, pathogenicity, and virulence [1]. For the parasitic trypanosomes that cause African sleeping sickness, mating occurs during transmission by the tsetse vector [2, 3] and involves meiosis [4], but haploid...

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Autores principales: Peacock, Lori, Bailey, Mick, Carrington, Mark, Gibson, Wendy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cell Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24388851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.044