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Culture adaptation of malaria parasites selects for convergent loss-of-function mutants.
Scientific reports - 24 Jan 2017
Claessens Antoine, Affara Muna, Assefa Samuel A, Kwiatkowski Dominic P, Conway David J
Abstract excerpt
Cultured human pathogens may differ significantly from source populations. To investigate the genetic basis of laboratory adaptation in malaria parasites, clinical Plasmodium falciparum isolates were sampled from patients and cultured in vitro for up to three months. Genome sequence analysis was performed on multiple culture time point samples from six monoclonal isolates, and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)...
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