Ancient common ancestry of the merozoite surface protein 1 of Plasmodium vivax as inferred from its homologue in Plasmodium knowlesi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-108

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

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Merozoite surface protein 1; Most recent common ancestor; Plasmodium knowlesi; Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION LINE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 31144473069     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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