High diversity of West African bat malaria parasites and a tight link with rodent Plasmodium taxa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 17415-17419

  Schaer, Juliane ^a,b   Perkins, Susan L ^c   Decher, Jan ^d   Leendertz, Fabian H ^e   Fahr, Jakob ^f,g   Weber, Natalie ^h   Matuschewski, Kai ^a,i  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Haemosporida; Host pathogen coevolution; Molecular phylogeny; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; BLOOD SMEAR; FOREST; HEPATOCYSTIS; NYCTERIA; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYCHROMOPHILUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CHIROPTERA; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST-PATHOGEN COEVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886415555     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311016110     Document Type: Article

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