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Plasmodium vivax populations revisited: mitochondrial genomes of temperate strains in Asia suggest ancient population expansion.
BMC evolutionary biology - 17 Feb 2012
Miao Miao, Yang Zhaoqing, Patch Harland, Huang Yaming, Escalante Ananias A, Cui Liwang
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BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed human malaria parasite outside of Africa, and its range extends well into the temperate zones. Previous studies provided evidence for vivax population differentiation, but temperate vivax parasites were not well represented in these analyses. Here we address this deficit by using complete mitochondrial (mt) genome sequences to elucidate the broad genetic...
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