Multigenomic delineation of Plasmodium species of the Laverania subgenus infecting wild-living chimpanzees and gorillas

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1929-1939

  Liu, Weimin ^a   Sundararaman, Sesh A ^a   Loy, Dorothy E ^a   Learn, Gerald H ^a   Li, Yingying ^a   Plenderleith, Lindsey J ^b   Ndjango, Jean Bosco N ^c   Speede, Sheri ^d   Atencia, Rebeca ^e   Cox, Debby ^e,f   Shaw, George M ^a   Ayouba, Ahidjo ^g   Peeters, Martine ^g   Rayner, Julian C ^h   Hahn, Beatrice H ^a   Sharp, Paul M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KISANGANI   (Congo)

^d IDA Africa   (United States)

^e Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center   (Congo)

^f The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

^g INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptic plasmodium species; Laverania; P. falciparum; Plasmodium parasites infecting chimpanzees and gorillas; Single genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FECES; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85014852462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw128     Document Type: Article

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