Partners in time: Cospeciation and host-switching shape the evolution of Leishmania parasites

• Alicia Rojas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anaalicia.rojas@ucr.ac.cr

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Laboratory of Helminthology, Faculty of Microbiology, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2007-7198

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• Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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• Paula Alfaro-Segura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Alberto Solano-Barquero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Laboratory of Helminthology, Faculty of Microbiology, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Domenico Otranto

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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