Trypanosomes, tsetse and trypanotolerance: coevolution in tropical Africa.
Trypanotolerance reaches varying degrees of stability in wild and domestic animals according to their co-evolutionary contacts with tsetse flies and trypanosomes. In this context, various mechanisms developed by wild and domestic Bovidae to cope with tsetse and trypanosome challenge are discussed.
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International Trypanotolerance Centre, Banjul, The Gambia.
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D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000469:parasitology; D002417:Cattle / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000502:physiology; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D012418:Ruminants / Q000469:parasitology; D013045:Species Specificity; D014345:Trypanosoma / Q000502:physiology*; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000276:immunology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D014354:Trypanosomiasis, Bovine / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000635:transmission; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000502:physiology