Clues to Evolution of the SERA Multigene Family in 18 Plasmodium Species

• Nobuko Arisue,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Satoru Kawai,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu, Shimotsuga, Tochigi, Japan

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• Makoto Hirai,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

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• Nirianne M. Q. Palacpac,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Mozhi Jia,

  Current address: Teaching and Research Group of Medical Parasitology, Department of Pathogenic Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Akira Kaneko,

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Island Malaria Group, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Kazuyuki Tanabe,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Malariology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Toshihiro Horii

  * E-mail: horii@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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