ENTAMOEBA, GIARDIA AND TOXOPLASMA - CLONES OR CRYPTIC SPECIES

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作者
TIBAYRENC, M
机构
[1] Michel Tibayrenc is at the UMR CNRS/ORSTOM 9926: Genetique Moleculaire des Parasites et des Vecteurs, ORSTOM, BP 5045
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PARASITOLOGY TODAY | 1993年 / 9卷 / 03期
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10.1016/0169-4758(93)90217-4
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R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
The availability of molecular markers has renewed interest in the taxonomy of parasitic protozoa at the subspecific and specific levels. Nevertheless, the conclusions reached ore heavily dependent upon the way the data ore analyzed. Some authors have emphasized the value of genetic distances to propose the creation of new species, while others have rather favoured a population genetic approach to account for the intraspecific variability of parasites. In this article, using three illustrative cases, Michel Tibayrenc shows that dissimilar taxonomic approaches can be built from quite comparable sets of data.
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