Malaria life cycle intensifies both natural selection and random genetic drift
Malaria life cycle intensifies both natural selection and random genetic drift
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United States: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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United States: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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Analysis of genome sequences of 159 isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Senegal yields an extraordinarily high proportion (26.85%) of protein-coding genes with the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous polymorphism greater than one. This proportion is much greater than observed in other organisms. Also unusual is that the site-frequency spectra o...
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Malaria life cycle intensifies both natural selection and random genetic drift
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TN_cdi_pnas_primary_110_50_20129
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pnas_primary_110_50_20129
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1319857110
