Malaria parasite sequences from chimpanzee support the co-speciation hypothesis for the origin of virulent human malaria (Plasmodium falciparum)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 135-143

  Hughes, Austin L ^a   Verra, Federica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Host parasite co speciation; Plasmodium flaciparum; Plasmodium reichenowi; Synonymous substitution rate

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI;

EID: 77956231682     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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