Multiple origin of the dihomoxenous life cycle in sarcosporidia

Abstrakt

The available dataset supports independent appearance of the dihomoxenous life cycle at least twice during the evolution of the Sarcocystidae

Klíčová slova

• Sarcocystidae
• phylogenetic analysis
• dihomoxeny
• small subunit ribosomal RNA
• life cycle
• evolution
• phylogenetic analysis
• Toxoplasma-gondii
• Hammondia-hammondi
• Sarcocystis-mucosa
• gene-sequences
• Coccidia
• Apicomplexa
• evolution
• Frenkel