A cautionary note concerning Plasmodium in apes

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 231-232

  Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a   Ashford, Richard W ^b,c   Bensch, Staffan ^d   Killick Kendrick, Robert ^e   Perkins, Susan ^f  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APE; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMETOCYTE; HAEMOSPORIDA; HAPLOTYPE; LETTER; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMINIDAE; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79956347502     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.02.008     Document Type: Letter

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