ReviewParasitology2015
Sexual reproduction and genetic exchange in parasitic protists.
Review in Parasitology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Assessing Species Delimitation inMicroorganisms · 2026Article
- Towards an evolutionary baseline model ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The Relevance of the Predominant Clonal Evolution (PCE) Model for the Molecular Epidemiology and Subspecific Taxonomy ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Genomic divergence across the tree of life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Deciphering the code of resistance: a genomic and transcriptomic exploration of the Cystoisospora suis Holland-I strain.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Metallic Nanoparticles and Core-Shell Nanosystems in the Treatment, Diagnosis, and Prevention of Parasitic Diseases.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Life in plastic, it's fantastic! HowFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Review
- The transcriptome from asexual to sexual in vitro development of Cystoisospora suis (Apicomplexa: Coccidia).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Microeukaryotic gut parasites in wastewater treatment plants: diversity, activity, and removal.Microbiome · 2022Article
- The first embryo, the origin of cancer and animal phylogeny. I. A presentation of the neoplastic process and its connection with cell fusion and germline formation.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Sex in protists: A new perspective on the reproduction mechanisms of trypanosomatids.Genetics and molecular biology · 2022Article
- Sexual Development in Non-Human Parasitic Apicomplexa: Just Biology or Targets for Control?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- An Ecologically Framed Comparison of The Potential for Zoonotic Transmission of Non-Human and Human-Infecting Species of Malaria Parasite.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2021Review
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- Polyphyletic origin, intracellular invasion, and meiotic genes in the putatively asexual agamococcidians (Apicomplexa incertae sedis).Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Recombination Rate Variation and Infrequent Sex Influence Genetic Diversity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Characterization of Cystoisospora suis sexual stages in vitro.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
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Abstract
A key part of the life cycle of an organism is reproduction. For a number of important protist parasites that cause human and animal disease, their sexuality has been a topic of debate for many years. Traditionally, protists were considered to be primitive relatives of the 'higher' eukaryotes, which may have diverged prior to the evolution of sex and to reproduce by binary fission. More recent views of eukaryotic evolution suggest that sex, and meiosis, evolved early, possibly in the common ancestor of all eukaryotes. However, detecting sex in these parasites is not straightforward. Recent advances, particularly in genome sequencing technology, have allowed new insights into parasite reproduction. Here, we review the evidence on reproduction in parasitic protists. We discuss protist reproduction in the light of parasitic life cycles and routes of transmission among hosts.
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