Mitochondrial genes support a common origin of rodent malaria parasites and Plasmodium falciparum's relatives infecting great apes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Blanquart, Samuel ^a,b,c   Gascuel, Olivier ^a  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMMON ANCESTRY; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MALARIA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; PROBABILITY; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RODENT; SITE SELECTION;

HEPATOCYSTIS; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOMINID; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOMINIDAE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALARIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79952567823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-70     Document Type: Article

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