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Human migration and the spread of malaria parasites to the New World

2017-05-29

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<h4>Background</h4> The Americas were the last continent to be settled by modern humans, but how and when human malaria parasites arrived in the New World is uncertain. Here, we apply phylogenetic analysis and coalescent-based gene flow modeling to a global collection of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax mitogenomes to infer the demographic history and geographic origins of malaria parasites circulating in the...

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Literature Corpus work: c1c615e3-8f59-5337-b9be-800dfc638ad4
DOI: 10.1101/141853

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