Geographic genetic differentiation of a malaria parasite, plasmodium mexicanum, and its lizard host, sceloporus occidentalis

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 308-313

  Fricke, Jennifer M ^a   Vardo Zalik, Anne M ^a,b   Schall, Jos J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIZARD; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PARASITE; VIRULENCE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIZARD; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM MEXICANUM; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIZARDS; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MEXICANUM; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953594604     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2304.1     Document Type: Article

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