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| Title |
Mating compatibility in the parasitic protist Trypanosoma brucei
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-3305-7-78 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lori Peacock, Vanessa Ferris, Mick Bailey, Wendy Gibson |
| Abstract |
Genetic exchange has been described in several kinetoplastid parasites, but the most well-studied mating system is that of Trypanosoma brucei, the causative organism of African sleeping sickness. Sexual reproduction takes place in the salivary glands (SG) of the tsetse vector and involves meiosis and production of haploid gametes. Few genetic crosses have been carried out to date and consequently there is little information about the mating compatibility of different trypanosomes. In other single-celled eukaryotes, mating compatibility is typically determined by a system of two or more mating types (MT). Here we investigated the MT system in T. brucei. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 42 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 42 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 8 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 55% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 10% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 5% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 10% |
| Unknown | 6 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2022.
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#6,309,279
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Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#1,370
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Outputs of similar age
#59,909
of 225,715 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#4
of 46 outputs
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