Genes | |
An Infectious Topic in Reticulate Evolution: Introgression and Hybridization in Animal Parasites | |
Jillian T. Detwiler1  | |
关键词: hybridization; introgression; parasites; helminths; protozoans; | |
DOI : 10.3390/genes1010102 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Little attention has been given to the role that introgression and hybridization have played in the evolution of parasites. Most studies are host-centric and ask if the hybrid of a free-living species is more or less susceptible to parasite infection. Here we focus on what is known about how introgression and hybridization have influenced the evolution of protozoan and helminth parasites of animals. There are reports of genome or gene introgression from distantly related taxa into apicomplexans and filarial nematodes. Most common are genetic based reports of potential hybridization among congeneric taxa, but in several cases, more work is needed to definitively conclude current hybridization. In the medically important
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