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Long- and Short-Term Selective Forces on Malaria Parasite Genomes
Plasmodium parasites, the causal agents of malaria, result in more than 1 million deaths annually. Plasmodium are unicellular eukaryotes with small ∼23 Mb genomes encoding ∼5200 protein-coding genes. The protein-coding genes comprise about half of these genomes. Although evolutionary processes have...
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Public Library of Science
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20838588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001099 |