Tracing the dawn of Plasmodium falciparum with mitochondrial genome sequences

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 671-674

  Conway, David J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANALYTIC METHOD; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0344861893     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2003.10.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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