%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Tibayrenc, Michel
%A Ayala, F.
%T Hybridization in Trypanosoma congolense does not challenge the predominant clonal evolution model : a comment on Tihonetal., 2017, Mol. Ecol
%D 2018
%L fdi:010073800
%G ENG
%J Molecular Ecology
%@ 0962-1083
%K animal mating/breeding systems ; evolution of sex ; genomics/proteomics ; molecular evolution ; parasitology
%K AFRIQUE SUBSAHARIENNE
%M ISI:000442735900001
%N 17
%P 3421-3424
%R 10.1111/mec.14714
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073800
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2018/09/010073800.pdf
%V 27
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Tihon et al. have just published in Mol. Ecol. a fine genomic study on Trypanosoma congolense, agent of Animal African Trypanosomiasis. They present very convincing evidence that T. congolense underwent several hybridization events between distinct genetic lines in Zambia. They claim that their data challenge our predominant clonal evolution model (PCE) of micropathogens. We point out the main tenets of our model and show that Tihon et al.'s claim is based on a misinterpretation of the PCE model. Actually, their data strongly support PCE in T. congolense at a microevolutionary level.
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