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PARASITE
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 226-232Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2008153226
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kinetoplastid; trypanosome; Trypanosomatidae; Bodonidae; Prokinetoplastina; Metakinetoplastina; evolution
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To fully understand the evolutionary history of parasitic kinetoplastids and to understand the context within which the evolution of each parasite group has developed, an understanding not just of the parasites, but of all kinetoplastids is required. Accordingly, this paper provides an overview of kinetoplastid evolution and systematics, including coverage of the proposal by Moreira et al (2004) to divide kinetoplasts into Prokinetoplastina (Ichthyobodo and Perkinsiella and Metakinetoplastina (other bodonids and trypanosomatids) The implications of such a revision, with regard to correctly identifying outgroup taxa for studies of evolution within taxa of medical importance, ore addressed, together with a more detailed review of the evolution and origins of the trypanosomes in the light of new phylogenies, new approaches and revisions in kinetoplastid systematics.
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