Rougeron V. auteur aut IRD De Meeûs Thierry auteur aut IRD Banuls Anne-Laure auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Leishmaniases remain a major public health problem. Despite the development of elaborate experimental techniques and sophisticated statistical tools, how these parasites evolve, adapt themselves to new environmental compartments and hosts, and develop resistance to new drugs remains unclear. Leishmania parasites constitute a complex model from a biological, ecological, and epidemiological point of view but also with respect to their genetics and phylogenetics. With this in view, we seek to outline the criteria, caveats, and confounding factors to be considered for Leishmania population genetic studies. We examine how the taxonomic complexity, heterozygosity, intraspecific and interspecific recombination, aneuploidy, and ameiotic recombination of Leishmania intersect with population genetic studies of this parasite. specialized Leishmania population genetic sex mix mating aneuploidy 052 080 020 31 2 52-59 2015 1471-4922 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010063960 10.1016/j.pt.2014.12.001 1471-4922 [F B010063960] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010063960 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2015/03/010063960.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2015-04-07 2017-08-23 fdi:010063960 fre