Geographic separation of domestic and wild strains of Toxoplasma gondii in French Guiana correlates with a monomorphic version of chromosome1a.

• Main Authors: Asis Khan (Author), Daniel Ajzenberg (Author), Aurélien Mercier (Author), Magalie Demar (Author), Stéphane Simon (Author), Marie Laure Dardé (Author), Qiuling Wang (Author), Shiv Kumar Verma (Author), Benjamin M Rosenthal (Author), Jitender P Dubey (Author), L David Sibley (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Previous studies have stressed the genetic divergence and high pathogenicity of strains of T. gondii from French Guiana. Although strains from coastal, human adapted environments (so called anthropized) resemble those found in other regions of the Caribbean, strains collected from inland jungle envi...