Far-East Asian Toxoplasma isolates share ancestry with North and South/Central American recombinant lineages

Abstract Toxoplasma gondii is a global protozoan pathogen. Clonal lineages predominate in Europe, North America, Africa, and China, whereas highly recombinant parasites are endemic in South/Central America. Far East Asian T. gondii isolates are not included in current global population genetic struc...

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Main Authors: Fumiaki Ihara, Hisako Kyan, Yasuhiro Takashima, Fumiko Ono, Kei Hayashi, Tomohide Matsuo, Makoto Igarashi, Yoshifumi Nishikawa, Kenji Hikosaka, Hirokazu Sakamoto, Shota Nakamura, Daisuke Motooka, Kiyoshi Yamauchi, Madoka Ichikawa-Seki, Shinya Fukumoto, Motoki Sasaki, Hiromi Ikadai, Kodai Kusakisako, Yuma Ohari, Ayako Yoshida, Miwa Sasai, Michael E. Grigg, Masahiro Yamamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47625-6