Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in gorillas

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7314, 2010, Pages 420-425

  Liu, Weimin ^a   Li, Yingying ^a   Learn, Gerald H ^a   Rudicell, Rebecca S ^b   Robertson, Joel D ^a   Keele, Brandon F ^a,p   Ndjango, Jean Bosco N ^c   Sanz, Crickette M ^d,e   Morgan, David B ^e,f   Locatelli, Sabrina ^g   Gonder, Mary K ^g   Kranzusch, Philip J ^h   Walsh, Peter D ⁱ   Delaporte, Eric ^j   Mpoudi Ngole, Eitel ^k   Georgiev, Alexander V ^l   Muller, Martin N ^m   Shaw, George M ^a,b   Peeters, Martine ^j   Sharp, Paul M ⁿ   Rayner, Julian C ^a,o   Hahn, Beatrice H ^a,b   more..

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KISANGANI   (Congo)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Congo)

^f LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ VaccinApe   (United States)

^j INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^k Institut de Recherches Medicales et d'Etudes des Plantes Medicinales Prevention du Sida au Cameroun   (Cameroon)

^l HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^o WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^p SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ENDOPARASITE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HOMINID; MALARIA; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTOZOAN;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GORILLA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; APE DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

GORILLA BERINGEI; GORILLA GORILLA; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; APE DISEASES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77957134091     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09442     Document Type: Article

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