Sex: is giardia doing it in the dark?
The protist Giardia has long been considered strictly asexual. Now genes specific for meiotic recombination have been found in the Giardia genome, but their consequences for genetics, epidemiology and evolution remain unknown.
Birky
C William
CW
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Biological Sciences West, Tuscon, Arizona 85721, USA. birky@u.arizona.edu
D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D018503:Genome, Protozoan; D023281:Genomics; D016829:Giardia lamblia / Q000502:physiology*; D008540:Meiosis / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012723:Sex