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Do malaria parasites mate non-randomly in the mosquito midgut?
Genetical research - 1 Jun 2000
Anderson T J, Paul R E, Donnelly C A, Day K P
Abstract excerpt
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based genotyping of oocysts dissected from mosquito midguts has previously been used to investigate overall levels of inbreeding within malaria parasite populations. We present a re-analysis of the population structure of Plasmodium falciparum malaria using diploid genotypes at three antigen-encoding loci in 118 oocysts dissected from 34 mosquitoes. We use these data to ask whether...
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