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Local adaptation and vector-mediated population structure in Plasmodium vivax malaria.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2008
Joy Deirdre A, Gonzalez-Ceron Lilia, Carlton Jane M, Gueye Amy, Fay Michael, McCutchan Thomas F, Su Xin-zhuan
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium vivax in southern Mexico exhibits different infectivities to 2 local mosquito vectors, Anopheles pseudopunctipennis and Anopheles albimanus. Previous work has tied these differences in mosquito infectivity to variation in the central repeat motif of the malaria parasite's circumsporozoite (csp) gene, but subsequent studies have questioned this view. Here we present evidence that P. vivax in southern...
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