Shaking the Tree: Multi-locus Sequence Typing Usurps Current Onchocercid (Filarial Nematode) Phylogeny.

• Main Authors: Emilie Lefoulon (Author), Odile Bain (Author), Jérôme Bourret (Author), Kerstin Junker (Author), Ricardo Guerrero (Author), Israel Cañizales (Author), Yuriy Kuzmin (Author), Tri Baskoro T Satoto (Author), Jorge Manuel Cardenas-Callirgos (Author), Sueli de Souza Lima (Author), Christian Raccurt (Author), Yasen Mutafchiev (Author), Laurent Gavotte (Author), Coralie Martin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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During the past twenty years, a number of molecular analyses have been performed to determine the evolutionary relationships of Onchocercidae, a family of filarial nematodes encompassing several species of medical or veterinary importance. However, opportunities for broad taxonomic sampling have bee...