Evidence for ancient balanced polymorphism at the Apical Membrane Antigen-1 (AMA-1) locus of Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 149-153

  Verra, Federica ^a   Hughes, Austin L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient polymorphism; Apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA 1); Immune evasion; Plasmodium falciparum; T Helper cell epitopes

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ALLELISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033991187     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00162-0     Document Type: Article

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