Plasmodium vivax Populations Are More Genetically Diverse and Less Structured than Sympatric Plasmodium falciparum Populations

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Jennison, Charlie ^a,b   Arnott, Alicia ^a,b   Tessier, Natacha ^a   Tavul, Livingstone ^c   Koepfli, Cristian ^a,b   Felger, Ingrid ^d   Siba, Peter M ^c   Reeder, John C ^e   Bahlo, Melanie ^a,b   Mueller, Ivo ^a,f   Barry, Alyssa E ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MALARIA; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALLELES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84928966113     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003634     Document Type: Article

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