The genome of the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium simium reveals adaptations to host-switching
Tobias Mourier, Denise Anete Madureira de Alvarenga, Abhinav Kaushik, Anielle de Pina-Costa, Olga Douvropoulou, Qingtian Guan, Francisco J. Guzmán‐Vega, Sarah Jayne Forrester, Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu, Cesare Bianco‐Júnior, Júlio César de Souza, Sílvia Bahadian Moreira, Zelinda Maria Braga Hirano, Alcides Pissinatti, Maria de Fátima Ferreira‐da‐Cruz, , Arnab Pain
The paper sequences the genome of Plasmodium simium to study its evolutionary history and identify genetic adaptations enabling host-switching to humans.
BMC Biology · Sep 30, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics