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Mitochondrial genes support a common origin of rodent malaria parasites and Plasmodium falciparum's relatives infecting great apes

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most acute form of human malaria. Most recent studies demonstrate that it belongs to a monophyletic lineage specialized in the infection of great ape hosts. Several other Plasmodium species cause human malaria. They all belong to another disti...

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Autores principales: Blanquart, Samuel, Gascuel, Olivier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21406081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-70