Competition among variants is predictable and contributes to the antigenic variation dynamics of African trypanosomes

• Douglas O. Escrivani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Douglas O. Escrivani, Viktor Scheidt

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, United Kingdom

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• Viktor Scheidt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Douglas O. Escrivani, Viktor Scheidt

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Dr. Brill & KEBOS GmbH, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Hamburg, Germany.

  Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, United Kingdom

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• Michele Tinti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, United Kingdom

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• Joana Faria,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

  Current address: York Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom.

  Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, United Kingdom

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• David Horn

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

  * E-mail: d.horn@dundee.ac.uk

  Affiliation Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5173-9284

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