Genome sequencing of chimpanzee malaria parasites reveals possible pathways of adaptation to human hosts

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Otto, Thomas D ^a   Rayner, Julian C ^a   Böhme, Ulrike ^a   Pain, Arnab ^a,b   Spottiswoode, Natasha ^c,d   Sanders, Mandy ^a   Quail, Michael ^a   Ollomo, Benjamin ^e   Renaud, François ^f   Thomas, Alan W ^g   Prugnolle, Franck ^e,f   Conway, David J ^h   Newbold, Chris ^a,d   Berriman, Matthew ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; PARASITE; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN; VIRULENCE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CHIMPANZEE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SYNTENY; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84921779905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5754     Document Type: Article

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