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Malaria genomics: New tools to fight an old disease

Author(s) -

Daniel E. Neafsey

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

the biochemist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1740-1194

pISSN - 0954-982X

DOI - 10.1042/bio03104012

Subject(s) - malaria , biology , plasmodium (life cycle) , genomics , disease , evolutionary biology , host (biology) , parasitic disease , ecology , zoology , parasite hosting , genome , genetics , immunology , gene , medicine , computer science , pathology , world wide web

Malaria is a disease caused by unicellular parasites that long ago gave up an independent photosynthetic lifestyle in exchange for a parasitic existence inside terrestrial vertebrates and mosquitoes. The precise evolutionary steps taken more than 100 million years ago to achieve this remarkable transition from innocuous red alga to insidious parasite of two biologically disparate classes of host are probably unknowable, but the end result has been disease of varying severity for millions of mammals, birds and reptiles, including, in all probability, dinosaurs.

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