Sex: is giardia doing it in the dark?

Curr Biol

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Biological Sciences West, Tuscon, Arizona 85721, USA.

Published: January 2005

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.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2004.12.055DOI Listing

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