The remarkable journey of adaptation of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite to New World anopheline mosquitoes
Plasmodium falciparum originated in Africa, dispersed around the world as a result of human migration and had to adapt to several different indigenous anopheline mosquitoes. Anophelines from the New World are evolutionary distant form African ones and this probably resulted in a more stringent selec...
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
2014-08-01
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| Series: | Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762014000500662&lng=en&tlng=en |