Hybridization and pre-zygotic reproductive barriers in Plasmodium

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1806, 2015, Pages

  Ramiro, Ricardo S ^a   Khan, Shahid M ^d   Franke Fayard, Blandine ^d   Janse, Chris J ^d   Obbard, Darren J ^a,b   Reece, Sarah E ^a,b,c  

^a Institute of Evolutionary Biology   (United Kingdom)

^b Ashworth Laboratories   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hybridization; Malaria; P230; P48 45; Reproductive isolation; Transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAMETE; HYBRIDIZATION; MALARIA; NATURAL SELECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RODENTIA;

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; REPRODUCTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84929497732     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.3027     Document Type: Article

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