Indels, structural variation, and recombination drive genomic diversity in Plasmodium falciparum.
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has a great capacity for evolutionary adaptation to evade host immunity and develop drug resistance. Current understanding of parasite evolution is impeded by the fact that a large fraction of the genome is either highly repetitive or highly variable and th...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
2016
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