Sex: Is Giardia Doing It in the Dark?

نویسنده

  • C.William Birky
چکیده

The protist Giardia has long been considered strictly asexual. Now genes specific for meiotic recombination have been found in the Giardia genome, but their consequences for genetics, epidemiology and evolution remain unknown.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Current Biology

دوره 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005