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Role for gene conversion in the evolution of cell-surface antigens of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

PLoS biology - 1 Mar 2024

Letcher Brice, Maciuca Sorina, Iqbal Zamin

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While the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has low average genome-wide diversity levels, likely due to its recent introduction from a gorilla-infecting ancestor (approximately 10,000 to 50,000 years ago), some genes display extremely high diversity levels. In particular, certain proteins expressed on the surface of human red blood cell-infecting merozoites (merozoite surface proteins (MSPs)) possess exactly...

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PMID: 38451924
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002507
PMCID: PMC10919680

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