International journal for parasitology
An intimate view of Leishmania infantum chromosome ends reveals less conserved subtelomeric regions and variations in the telomeric repeat.
Habtye Bisetegn, Beatriz Cristina Dias de Oliveira, Arthur de Oliveira Passos, Cristiane de Santis Alves, Evan Ernst, Maria Isabel Nogueira Cano
Published: 202610.1016/j.ijpara.2025.104769
Abstract
Leishmania infantum is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes visceral leishmaniasis, predominantly affecting marginalized populations in tropical and subtropical countries. The parasite genome comprises 36 chromosomes whose ends have not be…
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