The evolution of two Trypanosoma cruzi subgroups inferred from rRNA genes can be correlated with the interchange of American mammalian faunas in the Cenozoic and has implications to pathogenicity and host specificity
- 15 November 1999
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
- Vol. 104 (2) , 219-232
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-6851(99)00155-3
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