Malaria's many mates: Past, present, and future of the systematics of the order haemosporida

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-25

  Perkins, Susan L ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; GENOME; MALARIA; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; DNA BARCODING; GALLUS GALLUS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAEMOSPORIDA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TAXON; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; GENOMICS; HAEMOSPORIDA; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALARIA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84896862349     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/13-362.1     Document Type: Article

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