Pre-empting Pandora's Box: Blastocystis Subtypes Revisited.
Christen Rune
Stensvold
;
C Graham
Clark
;
(2019)
Pre-empting Pandora's Box: Blastocystis Subtypes Revisited.
Trends in Parasitology, 36 (3).
pp. 229-232.
ISSN 0169-4758
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2019.12.009
Blastocystis is a genetically diverse intestinal protist colonizing both human and non-human hosts. By 2013, 17 subtypes had been acknowledged. Since then, nine more subtypes have been proposed. We argue that several recently proposed subtypes are invalid. We also revisit recommendations regarding the requirements for annotating sequences as new subtypes.
Item Type | Article |
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Elements ID | 142492 |
Date Deposited | 06 Jan 2020 14:28 |
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0521-0977