Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes
Parasite host switches may trigger disease emergence, but prehistoric host ranges are often unknowable. Lymphatic filariasis and loiasis are major human diseases caused by the insect-borne filarial nematodes Brugia, Wuchereria and Loa. Here we show that the genomes of these nematodes and seven tropi...
| Autor principal: | Suh, Alexander |
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| Outros Autores: | Witt, Christopher C., Menger, Juliana, Sadanandan, Keren R., Podsiadlowski, Lars, Gerth, Michael, Weigert, Anne, McGuire, Jimmy A., Mudge, Joann, Edwards, Scott V., Rheindt, Frank E. |
| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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Nature Communications
2020
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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15820 |