Genetic variation and the recent worldwide expansion of Plasmodium falciparum

Gene

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 161-170

  Ayala, Francisco J ^a   Rich, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumsporozoite protein; Coalescent theory; Malaria; MSP 1; MSP 2; Neutral variation; Nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI;

EID: 0034736527     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00478-9     Document Type: Article

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