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April 21, 2020

Genome and transcriptome analyses of Leishmania spp.: opening Pandora’s box.

Authors: Cruz, Angela Kaysel and Freitas-Castro, Felipe

In the last 30 years, significant advances in genetic manipulation tools along with complete genome and transcriptome sequencing have advanced our understanding of the biology of Leishmania parasites and their interplay with the sand fly and mammalian hosts. High-throughput sequencing in association with CRISPR/Cas9 have prepared the ground for significant advances. Given the richness of the progress made over the last decade, in this article, we focused on the most recent contributions of genome-wide and transcriptome analyses of Leishmania spp., which permit the comparison of life cycle stages, the evaluation of different strains and species in their natural niches and in the field and the simultaneously comparison of the gene expression profiles of parasites and hosts.Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Journal: Current opinion in microbiology
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2019.05.004
Year: 2019

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