The molecular evolution of four anti-malarial immune genes in the Anopheles gambiae species complex

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Parmakelis, Aristeidis ^a,d   Slotman, Michel A ^a   Marshall, Jonathon C ^a,e   Awono Ambene, Parfait H ^b   Antonio Nkondjio, Christophe ^b   Simard, Frederic ^b,c   Caccone, Adalgisa ^a   Powell, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^c Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FBN9 GENE; FEMALE; GAMBICIN GENE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; IMMUNOGENETICS; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOS GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; REL2 GENE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; GAMBIAE SPECIES COMPLEX; HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41849118096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-79     Document Type: Article

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