Phylogenetic relationship among the malaria parasites based on small subunit rRNA gene sequences: Monophyletic nature of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 157-165

  Qari, Shoukat H ^a,c   Shi, Ya Ping ^a   Pieniazek, Norman J ^b   Collins, William E ^b   Lal, Altaf A ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CERCOPITHECIDAE; MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PARAMECIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FRAGILE; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM LOPHURAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA; TOXOPLASMA;

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030208897     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0068     Document Type: Article

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