Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum

• Shai Pilosof ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shainova@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0430-5568

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• Qixin He,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Kathryn E. Tiedje,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of BioSciences, Bio21 Institute/University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• Shazia Ruybal-Pesántez,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of BioSciences, Bio21 Institute/University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0495-179X

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• Karen P. Day,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of BioSciences, Bio21 Institute/University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• Mercedes Pascual

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3575-7233

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