Published in Trends Parasitol on July 01, 2015
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Molecular typing of Trypanosoma cruzi isolates, United States. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.49
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Extreme inbreeding in Leishmania braziliensis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.29
Sex-related similarities and differences in the neural correlates of beauty. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.27
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Evidence for genetic exchange and hybridization in Trypanosoma cruzi based on nucleotide sequences and molecular karyotype. Infect Genet Evol (2003) 1.24
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Chemotherapy with benznidazole and itraconazole for mice infected with different Trypanosoma cruzi clonal genotypes. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2003) 1.17
A new Drosophila spliceosomal intron position is common in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.15
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Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from a geographically restricted endemic area for Chagas' disease in Argentina. Int J Parasitol (2003) 1.10
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Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution II: biodiversity and extinction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.07
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How clonal are Trypanosoma and Leishmania? Trends Parasitol (2013) 1.05
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DNA polymorphism in the beta-Esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2003) 0.95
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Phylogenetic analysis of the glucose-6-phosphate isomerase gene in Trypanosoma cruzi. Exp Parasitol (2006) 0.89
Phylogenetic character mapping of proteomic diversity shows high correlation with subspecific phylogenetic diversity in Trypanosoma cruzi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 0.89
Polymorphism patterns in two tightly linked developmental genes, Idgf1 and Idgf3, of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2002) 0.89
Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution IV: the human condition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 0.88
Pseudogenes are not pseudo any more. RNA Biol (2012) 0.87
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Lack of correlation between in vitro susceptibility to Benznidazole and phylogenetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease. Exp Parasitol (2004) 0.87
Interest and limitations of Spliced Leader Intergenic Region sequences for analyzing Trypanosoma cruzi I phylogenetic diversity in the Argentinean Chaco. Infect Genet Evol (2010) 0.87
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Models of spliceosomal intron proliferation in the face of widespread ectopic expression. Gene (2005) 0.86
Differential gene expression in benznidazole-resistant Trypanosoma cruzi parasites. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2005) 0.86
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Nucleotide variation of the Est-6 gene region in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2003) 0.82
Sequence variation in the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase (DHFR-TS) and trypanothione reductase (TR) genes of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol (2002) 0.82
Complex interplay of evolutionary forces in the ladybird homeobox genes of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One (2011) 0.82
Evidence of diversifying selection in human papillomavirus type 16 E6 but not E7 oncogenes. J Mol Evol (2002) 0.82
Predominant clonal evolution leads to a close parity between gene expression profiles and subspecific phylogeny in Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol (2004) 0.82
The Vein Patterning 1 (VEP1) gene family laterally spread through an ecological network. PLoS One (2011) 0.81
Reply to Sharp et al.: Host species sampling bias and Plasmodium falciparum origin paradigm shifts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 0.81
Theodosius Dobzhansky's role in the emergence and institutionalization of genetics in Mexico. Genetics (2005) 0.81
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Nucleotide variation in the tinman and bagpipe homeobox genes of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2004) 0.80
Taeniid history, natural selection and antigenic diversity: evolutionary theory meets helminthology. Trends Parasitol (2008) 0.80
Emergence of new alleles of the MSP-3alpha gene in Plasmodium vivax isolates from Korea. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2010) 0.80
DNA variation in the phenotypically-diverse brown alga Saccharina japonica. BMC Plant Biol (2012) 0.79
Molecular population genetics of the beta-esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. J Genet (2003) 0.79
Trypanosoma cruzi strains isolated from human, vector, and animal reservoir in the same endemic region in Mexico and typed as T. cruzi I, discrete typing unit 1 exhibit considerable biological diversity. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz (2006) 0.79
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Nucleotide variation at the dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) gene in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. J Genet (2007) 0.77
Entropy and GC Content in the beta-esterase gene cluster of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 0.77
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Science, evolution and natural selection: in praise of Darwin at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples. Hist Philos Life Sci (2015) 0.75
Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its relevance to the surveillance and control of TB: an e-debate. Infect Genet Evol (2002) 0.75