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Characterizing the genetic diversity of the monkey malaria parasite Plasmodium cynomolgi.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2016
Sutton Patrick L, Luo Zunping, Divis Paul C S, Friedrich Volney K, Conway David J, Singh Balbir, Barnwell John W, Carlton Jane M, Sullivan Steven A
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium cynomolgi is a malaria parasite that typically infects Asian macaque monkeys, and humans on rare occasions. P. cynomolgi serves as a model system for the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax, with which it shares such important biological characteristics as formation of a dormant liver stage and a preference to invade reticulocytes. While genomes of three P. cynomolgi strains have been sequenced,...
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