Genome sequences reveal divergence times of malaria parasite lineages

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1737-1749

  Silva, Joana C ^a   Egan, Amy ^a   Friedman, Robert ^b   Munro, James B ^a   Carlton, Jane M ^c   Hughes, Austin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HAPLORHINI; HOMINID; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84856290479     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010001575     Document Type: Article

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