03/07/2024
Short Reports
Gene conversion and malaria antigen diversity
MSPs expressed by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum on the surface of human red-blood-cell-infecting merozoites possess exactly two deeply-diverged lineages that have seemingly not recombined. The evolutionary origin of this phenomenon remains unknown but genomic analysis of DBLMSP and DBLMSP2 by Brice Letcher, Sorina Maciuca and Zamin Iqbal reveals the answer to this long-standing puzzle.
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