恒河猴疟原虫的宿主转移种形成持续进行。

Ongoing host-shift speciation in Plasmodium simium.

机构信息

Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Superintendency for the Control of Endemic Diseases (SUCEN), State Secretary of Health, São Paulo, Brazil; Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Tropical Medicine of São Paulo, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

出版信息

Trends Parasitol. 2021 Nov;37(11):940-942. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.08.005. Epub 2021 Sep 14.

DOI:10.1016/j.pt.2021.08.005

PMID:34535396

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.

摘要

新世界中感染阔鼻猴和人类的疟原虫——西氏疟原虫与间日疟原虫几乎完全相同。对这两个姐妹物种的最近基因组比较分析表明，一个可能导致西氏疟原虫在逐渐形成物种的过程中适应非人类灵长类动物的基因存在高度分化。