The African origin of Plasmodium vivax.
The African origin of Plasmodium vivax.
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间日疟原虫起源于非洲。
DOI:
10.1093/femsre/fuac015
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
11.3
通讯作者:
Hahn,BeatriceH
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作者:
Sharp,PaulM;Plenderleith,LindseyJ;Culleton,Richard;Hahn,BeatriceH
Rougeron and colleagues recently reviewed the origin of the two major human malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax (Rougeron et al. 2021). They supported their arguments with an evolutionary tree intended to depict the relationships among mammal-infecting Plasmodium species. However, the phylogeny they presented is based on outdated analyses, and some (erroneous) guesswork. More recent analyses of larger datasets have yielded different results, which are key for correctly interpreting the origins of P. vivax.The phylogeny shown by Rougeron et al.(2021) in Fig. 1, with relevant aspects repeated in Fig. 3, is described as ‘mostly based on the results of Galen et al.( 2018)’. Galen et al.(2018) were interested in the higher order relationships among Plasmodium and other genera of Haemosporidian parasites and used a dataset of 21 proteins conserved across this broad range of species. More recent analyses by several groups have focused on Plasmodium species infecting mammals, using 30 protein sequences encoded by the apicoplast genome (Arisue et al. 2019), or more than 1000 protein sequences encoded by the nuclear genome (Rutledge et al. 2017, Sharp et al. 2020); these studies have yielded results that differ from the phylogeny shown in Fig. 1 of Rougeron et al.(2021) in important ways.