High sequence diversity and evidence of balancing selection in the Pvmsp3α gene of Plasmodium vivax in the Venezuelan Amazon

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 86-93

  Ord, Rosalynn ^a,b   Polley, Spencer ^a   Tami, Adriana ^a,c   Sutherland, Colin J ^a  

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

^b HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Genetic diversity; Plasmodium vivax; Pvmsp3

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN PVMSP3ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HOST; HUMAN; MEROZOITE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS); VENEZUELA;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 25844502025     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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