Molecular systematics of the three mitochondrial protein-coding genes of malaria parasites: Corroborative and new evidence for the origins of human malaria

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 471-478

  Perkins, Susan L ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Cytochrome oxidase I; Cytochrome oxidase III; Malaria; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT MALARIA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RODENTIA;

EID: 67349136889     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19401730802570926     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Altekar G, Dwarkadas S, Huelsenbeck JP, Ronquist F. 2004. Parallel metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Bioinformatics 20:407-415.
2. Escalante AA, Freeland DE, Collins WE, Lal AA. 1998. The evolution of primate malaria parasites based on the gene encoding cytochrome b from the linear mitochondrial genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:8124-8129.
3. Feagin JE, Werner E, Gardner MJ, Williamson DH, Wilson RJ. 1992. Homologies between the contiguous and fragmented rRNAs of the two Plasmodium falciparum extrachromosomal DNAs are limited to core sequences. Nucleic Acids Res 20:879-887.
4. Huelsenbeck JP, Ronquist F. 2001. MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Bioinformatics 17:754-755.
5. Hughes MK, Hughes AL. 1995. Natural selection on Plasmodium surface proteins. Mol Biochem Parasitol 71:99-113.
6. Ji Y, Mericle BL, Rehkopf DH, Anderson JD, Feagin JE. 1996. The 6kb element of Plasmodium falciparum is polycistronically transcribed. Mol Biochem Parasitol 81:211-223.
7. Joseph JT, Aldritt SM, Unnasch T, Puijalon O, Worth DF. 1989. Characterization of a conserved extrachromosomal element isolated from the avian malarial parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum.Mol Cell Biol 9:3621 -3629.
8. Levine ND. 1988. The Protozoan Phylum Apicomplexa. Vol. II. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p 154.
9. Martinsen ES, Perkins SL, Schall JJ. 2008. A three-genome phylogeny of malaria parasites (Plasmodium and closely related genera): Evolution of life-history traits and host switches. Mol Phylogenet Evol 7:261 -273.
10. Moore RB, Oborník M, Janouskovec J, Chrudimsky T, Vancová M, Green DH, et al. 2008. Aphotosynthetic alveolate closely related to the apicomplexan parasites. Nature 451:959-963.
11. Mu J, Joy DA, Duan J, Huang Y, Carlton J, Walker J, et al. 2005. Host switch leads to emergence of Plasmodium vivax in humans. Mol Biol Evol 22:1686-1693.
12. Perkins SL. 2000. Species concepts and malaria parasites: Detecting a cryptic species of Plasmodium. Proc R Soc London B 267:2345-2350.
13. Perkins SL, Schall JJ. 2002. A molecular phylogeny of malaria parasites recovered from cytochrome b gene sequences. J Parasitol 88:972-978.
14. Perkins SL, Sarkar IN, Carter R. 2007. The phylogeny of rodent malaria parasites: Simultaneous analysis across three genomes. Infect Genet Evol 7:74-83.
15. Qari SH, Shi YP, Pieniazek NJ, Collins WE, Lal AA. 1996. Phylogenetic relationship among the malaria parasites based on small subunit rRNA gene sequences: Monophyletic nature of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Mol Phylogenet Evol 6:157-165.
16. Rehkopf DH, Gillespie DE, Harrell MI, Feagin JE. 2000. Transcriptional mapping and RNA processing ofthe Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrial mRNAs. Mol Biochem Parasitol 105:91-103.
17. Rogers MJ, McConkey GA, Li J, McCutchan TF. 1995. The ribosomal DNA loci in Plasmodium falciparum accumulate mutations independently. J Mol Biol 245:881-891.
18. Roy SM, Irimia M. 2008. Origins ofhuman malaria: Rare genomic changes and full mitochondrial genomes confirm the relationship of Plasmodium falciparum to other mammalian parasites but complicate the origins of Plasmodium vivax. Mol Biol Evol 25:1192-1198.
19. Siregar JE, Syafruddin D, Matsuoka H, Kita K, Marzuki S. 2008. Mutation underlying resistance of Plasmodium berghei to atovaquone in the quinone binding domain 2 (Qo(2)) of the cytochrome b gene. Parasitol Int 57:229-232.
20. Slamovits CH, Saldarriaga JF, Larocque A, Keeling PJ. 2007. The highly reduced and fragmented mitochondrial genome of the early-branching dinoflagellate Oxrrhis marina shares characteristics with both apicomplexan and dinoflagellate mitochondrial genomes. J Mol Biol 372:356-368.
21. Stamatakis A. 2006. RAxML-VI-HPC: Maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models. Bioinformatics 22:2680-2690.
22. Stamatakis A, Hoover P, Rougemont J. 2008. A rapid bootstrap algorithm for the RAxMLWeb servers. Syst Biol 57:758-771.
23. Suplick K, Morrisey J, Vaidya AB. 1990. Complex transcription from the extrachromosomal DNA encoding mitochondrial functions of Plasmodium yoelii. Mol Cell Biol 10:6381-6388.
24. Vaidya AB, Arasu P. 1987. Tandemly arranged gene clusters of malarial parasites that are highly conserved and transcribed. Mol Biochem Parasitol 22:249 -257.
25. Vaidya AB, Mather MW. 2005. A post-genomic view of the mitochondrion in malaria parasites. Curr Trend Micro Immunol 295:233-250.
26. Vaidya AB, Akella R, Suplick K. 1989. Sequences similar to genes for two mitochondrial proteins and portions of ribosomal RNA in tandemly arrayed 6-kilobase-pair DNA of a malarial parasite Mol Biochem Parasitol 35:97-107.
27. Valkiunas G, Iezhova TA, Krizanauskiene A, Palinauskas V, Sehgal RN, Bensch S. 2008. A comparative analysis of microscopy and PCR-based detection methods for blood parasites. J Parasitol 20(1). [Epub ahead of print]
28. Wilson RJ, Moore PW, McCready S, Hajibagheri MA, Blight KJ,
29. Strath M, Williamson DH. 1996. Recombination associated with replication of malarial mitochondrial DNA. EMBO J 15:684-693.
30. Wong S, Lau S, Woo P, Yuen KY. 2007. Bats as a continuing source of emerging infections in humans. Rev Med Virol 17:67-91.