Plasmodium falciparum: Worldwide sequence diversity and evolution of the malaria vaccine candidate merozoite surface protein-2 (MSP-2)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-40

  Ferreira, Marcelo U ^a,b   Hartl, Daniel L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic dimorphism; Antigenic diversity; base pairs; bp; Evolution; Malaria; merozoite surface protein 1; merozoite surface protein 2; million years; MSP 1; MSP 2; Myr; Recombination; repeat homology region; RHR; SD; SE; standard deviation; standard error of the mean; time to the most recent common ancestor; TMRCA; Vaccine development

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNITY; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MALARIA VACCINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33751185334     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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