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Published on: May 12, 2023
[TRANSFORMATIONS OF LIFE CYCLES IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF TRYPANOSOMATIDS. MACROTRANSFORMATIONS]
Abstract:
The review concerns analysis of life cycle macrotransformations in the evolutionary history of trypanosomatids. The term "macrotransformations" stands for evolutionary processes leading to the establishment of heteroxenous and secondary homoxenous life cycles within Trypanosomatidae. There were three direct macrotransformations in the evolution of the group resulting in the rise of heteroxenous genera Leishmania, Trypanosoma and Phytomonas, and one case of reverse macrotransformation in trypanosomes of T. (b.) brucei group. The issues of the origin, diversity and phylogeny of taxa whose emergence resulted from macrotransformations of life cycles of homoxenous trypanosomatids.
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