Parasitic diseases represent major global health problems of immense proportion.
Schistosomiasis, malaria, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and African sleeping sickness …

Malaria is a scourge of large swathes of the globe, stressing the need for a continuing effort
to better understand the biology of its aetiological agent. Like all pathogens of the phylum …

Reconciliation extracts information from the topological incongruence between gene and
species trees to infer duplications and losses in the history of a gene family. The inferred …

Background At present, there is not a widely accepted consensus view regarding the
phylogenetic structure of kingdom Fungi although two major phyla, Ascomycota and …

Background Plasmodium falciparum is the pathogen responsible for the most devastating
form of human malaria. As it replicates asexually in the erythrocytes of its human host, the …

The malaria parasite P lasmodium falciparum replicates in an intraerythrocytic
parasitophorous vacuole (PV). The most abundant P. falciparum PV protein, called SERA 5 …

The human ABO (H) blood group phenotypes arise from the evolutionarily oldest genetic
system found in primate populations. While the blood group antigen A is considered the …

Intimate Molecular Interactions of P. falciparum Merozoite Proteins Involved in Invasion of Red
Blood Cells and Their Implications for Vaccine Design | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS …

Serine repeat antigens (SERAs) are a family of secreted “cysteine-like” proteases of
Plasmodium parasites. Several SERAs possess an atypical active-site serine residue in …

The rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei develops in hepatocytes within 48–52h
from a single sporozoite into up to 20,000 daughter parasites, so-called merozoites. The …