Ecological divergence and hybridization of Neotropical Leishmania parasites [Population Biology]

The tropical Andes are an important natural laboratory to understand speciation in many taxa. Here we examined the evolutionary history of parasites of the Leishmania braziliensis species complex based on whole-genome sequencing of 67 isolates from 47 localities in Peru. We first show the origin of Andean Leishmania as a...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - October 5, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Frederik Van den Broeck, Nicholas J. Savill, Hideo Imamura, Mandy Sanders, Ilse Maes, Sinclair Cooper, David Mateus, Marlene Jara, Vanessa Adaui, Jorge Arevalo, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Lineth Garcia, Elisa Cupolillo, Michael Miles, Matthew Berriman, Ach Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research