Towards a framework for the evolutionary genomics of Kinetoplastids: what kind of data and how much?

Alberto MR Dávila1, Julius Lukeš2
1Lab. de Biologia Molecular de Tripanosomatídeos, Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Biology, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Tóm tắt

The current status of kinetoplastids phylogeny and evolution is discussed in view of the recent progresses on genomics. Some ideas on a potential framework for the evolutionary genomics of kinetoplastids are presented.

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