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Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrial genetic diversity exhibits isolation-by-distance patterns supporting a

Kazuyuki Tanabe1, Thibaut Jombart, Shun Horibe

  • 1Laboratory of Malariology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

Mitochondrion
|September 6, 2013
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Keywords:
ATQF(ST)Genetic diversityMAFMalariaMitochondrial genomeMitochondrionPlasmodium falciparumPolymorphismSNPadenylosuccinate lyase geneadslatovaquonecobcox1cox3cytochrome b genecytochrome c oxidase subunit I genecytochrome c oxidase subunit III genedNdSminor allele frequencymitochondriamtsarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-transporting ATPase genesercasingle nucleotide polymorphismthe Wright's fixation index of inter-population variance in allele frequenciesthe average number of pair-wise nucleotide differencesthe mean number of non-synonymous substitutions per non-synonymous sitethe mean number of synonymous substitutions per synonymous sitethe standardized number of polymorphic sites per siteθ(S)θ(π)

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