ゴリラにおける人間のマラリア寄生虫プラズモディウムファルシパラムの起源

Weimin Liu1, Yingying Li, Gerald H Learn

  • 1Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA.

Nature
|September 25, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

致命的なマラリア寄生虫プラズモディウムファルシパラムは,人間ではなくゴリラに由来しています. この研究では,猿のDNAを分析し,ゴリラのプラズモディウム寄生虫とヒトの病原体との直接的な関連性を明らかにしました.

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