Sequence diversity and molecular evolution of the merozoite surface antigen 2 of Plasmodium falciparum

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 154-160

  Felger, Ingrid ^a,e   Marshal, Vikki M ^b   Reeder, John C ^b   Hunt, John A ^c   Mgone, Charles S ^d   Beck, Hans Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Merozoite surface antigen 2; Molecular evolution; Nucleotide sequence comparisons

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030798650     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006215     Document Type: Article

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