Progress in Malaria Research: The Case for Phylogenetics

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2003, Pages 255-280

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

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXA; CELL STRUCTURE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

APICOMPLEXA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0346750905     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(03)54005-2     Document Type: Review

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