A Fresh Look at the Origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the Most Malignant Malaria Agent

Plasmodium falciparum Accompanied the Human Expansion out of Africa

(2010) Kazuyuki Tanabe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Unresolved direction of host transfer of Plasmodium vivax v. P. simium and P. malariae v. P. brasilianum

(2010) Loubna Tazi et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Malaria parasite sequences from chimpanzee support the co-speciation hypothesis for the origin of virulent human malaria (Plasmodium falciparum)

(2010) Austin L. Hughes et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The gorilla connection

(2010) Edward C. Holmes   NATURE

Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in gorillas

(2010) Weimin Liu et al.   NATURE

African great apes are natural hosts of multiple related malaria species, including Plasmodium falciparum

(2010) F. Prugnolle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

African apes as reservoirs of Plasmodium falciparum and the origin and diversification of the Laverania subgenus

(2010) L. Duval et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Molecular Clock for Malaria Parasites

(2010) R. E. Ricklefs et al.   SCIENCE

On the Diversity of Malaria Parasites in African Apes and the Origin of Plasmodium falciparum from Bonobos

(2010) Sabrina Krief et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

(2009) Benoit Nabholz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Chimpanzee Malaria Parasites Related to Plasmodium ovale in Africa

(2009) Linda Duval et al.   PLoS One

Identification of Plasmodium malariae, a Human Malaria Parasite, in Imported Chimpanzees

(2009) Toshiyuki Hayakawa et al.   PLoS One

The origin of malignant malaria

(2009) S. M. Rich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A New Malaria Agent in African Hominids

(2009) Benjamin Ollomo et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Selection shapes malaria genomes and drives divergence between pathogens infecting hominids versus rodents

(2008) Franck Prugnolle et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Humans Is Widely Distributed and Potentially Life Threatening

(2007) J. Cox-Singh et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

A three-genome phylogeny of malaria parasites (Plasmodium and closely related genera): Evolution of life-history traits and host switches

(2007) Ellen S. Martinsen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION