Hughes A L, Verra F
Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Proc Biol Sci. 2001 Sep 7;268(1478):1855-60. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1759.
It has been proposed that the virulent human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum underwent a recent severe population bottleneck. In order to test this hypothesis, we estimated the effective population size of this species from the patterns of nucleotide substitution at 23 nuclear protein-coding loci, using a variety of methods based on coalescent theory. Both simple methods and phylogenetically based maximum-likelihood methods yielded the conclusion that the effective population size of this species has been of the order of at least 10(5) for the past 300,000-400,000 years.
有人提出,恶性人类疟原虫——恶性疟原虫最近经历了一次严重的种群瓶颈。为了验证这一假设,我们使用了基于溯祖理论的多种方法,根据23个核蛋白编码位点的核苷酸替换模式,估计了该物种的有效种群大小。简单方法和基于系统发育的最大似然法均得出结论,在过去30万至40万年里,该物种的有效种群大小至少达到了10^5数量级。