Genomic Confirmation of Hybridisation and Recent Inbreeding in a Vector-Isolated Leishmania Population

Matthew B. Rogers; Tim Downing; Barbara A. Smith; Hideo Imamura; Mandy Sanders; Milena Svobodova; Petr Volf; Matthew Berriman; James A. Cotton; Deborah F. Smith

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004092

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Genomic Confirmation of Hybridisation and Recent Inbreeding in a Vector-Isolated Leishmania Population

Matthew B. Rogers ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew B. Rogers, Tim Downing

Current address: Center for Vaccine Research, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Centre for Immunology and Infection, Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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Tim Downing ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew B. Rogers, Tim Downing

Current address: College of Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Barbara A. Smith,

Affiliation Centre for Immunology and Infection, Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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Hideo Imamura,

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Unit of Molecular Parasitology, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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Mandy Sanders,

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Milena Svobodova,

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Fac. Sci., Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Petr Volf,

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Fac. Sci., Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Matthew Berriman,

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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James A. Cotton ,

* E-mail: james.cotton@sanger.ac.uk (JAC); deborah.smith@york.ac.uk (DFS)

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Deborah F. Smith

* E-mail: james.cotton@sanger.ac.uk (JAC); deborah.smith@york.ac.uk (DFS)

Affiliation Centre for Immunology and Infection, Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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Genomic Confirmation of Hybridisation and Recent Inbreeding in a Vector-Isolated Leishmania Population

Matthew B. Rogers,
Tim Downing,
Barbara A. Smith,
Hideo Imamura,
Mandy Sanders,
Milena Svobodova,
Petr Volf,
Matthew Berriman,
James A. Cotton,
Deborah F. Smith

Published: January 16, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004092

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