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Genetic variation and the recent worldwide expansion of Plasmodium falciparum.
Gene - 30 Dec 2000
Ayala F J, Rich S M
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium falciparum, the agent of human malignant malaria, diverged from Plasmodium reichenowi, the chimpanzee parasite, about the time the human and chimpanzee lineages diverged from each other. The absence of synonymous nucleotide variation at ten loci indicates that the world populations of P. falciparum derive most recently from one single strain, or 'cenancestor,' which lived a few thousand years ago....
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