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SUBMITTER: Escalante AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC548581 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Escalante Ananias A AA Cornejo Omar E OE Freeland Denise E DE Poe Amanda C AC Durrego Ester E Collins William E WE Lal Altaf A AA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050131 6
The high prevalence of Duffy negativity (lack of the Duffy blood group antigen) among human populations in sub-Saharan Africa has been used to argue that Plasmodium vivax originated on that continent. Here, we investigate the phylogenetic relationships among 10 species of Plasmodium that infect primates by using three genes, two nuclear (beta-tubulin and cell division cycle 2) and a gene from the plastid genome (the elongation factor Tu). We find compelling evidence that P. vivax is derived from ...[more]