Origin of Plasmodium falciparum malaria is traced by mitochondrial DNA

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 163-171

  Conway, David J ^a   Fanello, Caterina ^a   Lloyd, Jennifer M ^a   Al Joubori, Ban M A S ^a   Baloch, Aftab H ^a   Somanath, Sushela D ^a   Roper, Cally ^a   Oduola, Ayoade M J ^b   Mulder, Bert ^c   Povoa, Marinete M ^d   Singh, Balbir ^e   Thomas, Alan W ^f  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^d INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^f BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genetics; Mitochondrial genome; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium reichenowi; Species

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE MIGRATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOUTH AMERICA;

PAN (APE); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI;

EID: 0033765026     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00313-3     Document Type: Article

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