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SUBMITTER: Schwabl P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6722143 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190903 1
Genetic exchange enables parasites to rapidly transform disease phenotypes and exploit new host populations. Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasitic agent of Chagas disease and a public health concern throughout Latin America, has for decades been presumed to exchange genetic material rarely and without classic meiotic sex. We present compelling evidence from 45 genomes sequenced from southern Ecuador that T. cruzi in fact maintains truly sexual, panmictic groups that can occur alongside others that re ...[more]