Evidence of hybridization, mitochondrial introgression and biparental inheritance of the kDNA minicircles in Trypanosoma cruzi I
F. Rusman, N. Floridia-Yapur, P. G. Ragone, P. Diosque, N. Tomasini
This study investigates genetic exchange mechanisms in Trypanosoma cruzi by analyzing nuclear and mitochondrial DNA in hybrid strains and their potential parents, finding evidence of meiosis, mitochondrial introgression, and biparental inheritance of kDNA minicircles.
bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2019Evolutionary Biology