Ongoing host-shift speciation in Plasmodium simium

Trends Parasitol. 2021 Sep 14:S1471-4922(21)00203-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.08.005. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPlasmodium simium, a malaria parasite that infects platyrrhine monkeys and humans in the New World, is nearly identical to Plasmodium vivax. Recent genomic comparative analyses of these sister species have identified elevated divergence in a gene that may underlie P. simium adaptation to non-human primates during its gradual speciation process.PMID:34535396 | DOI:10.1016/j.pt.2021.08.005

Source: Trends in Parasitology - September 18, 2021 Category: Parasitology Authors: Tha ís C de Oliveira Priscila T Rodrigues Ana Maria R C Duarte Lu ísa D P Rona Marcelo U Ferreira Source Type: research