Ongoing host-shift speciation in Plasmodium simium

Author(s)

de Oliveira, Thais C. ; Rodrigues, Priscila T. ; Duarte, Ana Maria R. C. ; Rona, Luisa D. P. ; Ferreira, Marcelo U.

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Trends in Parasitology; v. 37, n. 11, p. 3-pg., 2021-10-13.

Abstract

Plasmodium 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. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/18740-9 - Scientific bases for residual malaria elimination in the Brazilian Amazon
• Grantee: Marcelo Urbano Ferreira
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 14/10919-4 - Epidemiologic aspects of human and simian malaria in areas of Atlantic Forest in the vicinity of the City of São Paulo: study the Anopheles fauna and natural infection by Plasmodium sp. in Parelheiros and Serra da Cantareira
• Grantee: Ana Maria Ribeiro de Castro Duarte
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants