Monday, December 30, 2013

Here's a bit of info on me and my relatives!

I'm a protist, as you probably already know by now.

I'm from Kingdom Protista, Phylum Euglenozoa, Class Kinetoplastida, Order Trypanosomatida, Genus Leishmania, and of course Species Leishmania major.

I have tons of relatives! Here's a list of all of them:
L. aethiopica
L. amazonensis
L. arabica
L. archibaldi (disputed species)
L. aristedesi
L. (Viannia) braziliensis
L. chagasi (syn. L. infantum)
L. (Viannia) colombiensis
L. deanei
L. donovani
L. enriettii
L. equatorensis
L. forattinii
L. garnhami
L. gerbili
L. (Viannia) guyanensis
L. herreri
L. hertigi
L. infantum
L. killicki
L. (Viannia) lainsoni
L. major
L. mexicana
L. (Viannia) naiffi
L. (Viannia) panamensis
L. (Viannia) peruviana
L. (Viannia) pifanoi
L. (Viannia) shawi
L. tarentolae
L. tropica
L. turanica
L. venezuelensis

That's a lot! Most of them are almost the same as me, they just live in different parts of the world.

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