First evidence of intraclonal genetic exchange in trypanosomatids using two Leishmania infantum fluorescent transgenic clones.

• Main Authors: Estefanía Calvo-Álvarez (Author), Raquel Álvarez-Velilla (Author), Maribel Jiménez (Author), Ricardo Molina (Author), Yolanda Pérez-Pertejo (Author), Rafael Balaña-Fouce (Author), Rosa M Reguera (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

The mode of reproduction in Leishmania spp has been argued to be essentially clonal. However, recent data (genetic analysis of populations and co-infections in sand flies) have proposed the existence of a non-obligate sexual cycle in the extracellular stage of the parasite within the sand fly vector...