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Rare variation in malaria parasites biases population-genetic inference

2026-01-14

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Understanding how pathogens evolve is fundamental to disease control and is a basic question in evolutionary biology, yet pathogens with complex life cycles violate assumptions of classic evolutionary models. Genetic analyses of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have shown multiple surprising patterns. For example, empirical analyses produce effective population size estimates that vary by orders of magn...

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Literature Corpus work: 6a1251ba-05f9-5bb3-bcfe-ceeb4fb0b985
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.09.698000

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