Mitochondrial genome sequences support ancient population expansion in Plasmodium vivax

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1733-1739

  Jongwutiwes, Somchai ^a,b   Putaporntip, Chaturong ^b   Iwasaki, Takuya ^a   Ferreira, Marcelo U ^c   Kanbara, Hiroji ^a   Hughes, Austin L ^d  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Population expansion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 25444503224     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi168     Document Type: Article

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