In vitro culture of freshly isolated Trypanosoma brucei brucei bloodstream forms results in gene copy-number changes

• Julius Mulindwa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5419-2760

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• Geofrey Ssentamu,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biosecurity, Biotechnical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-9763

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• Enock Matovu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biosecurity, Biotechnical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Kevin Kamanyi Marucha,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Kisii University Medical Biochemistry, Kisii, Kenya.

  Affiliation Heidelberg University Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1438-2735

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• Francisco Aresta-Branco,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Immune Diversity, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1264-9096

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• Claudia Helbig,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heidelberg University Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8323-3269

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• Christine Clayton

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cclayton@zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliation Heidelberg University Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6384-0731

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