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Signatures of competition and strain structure within the major blood-stage antigen of
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Measuring changes ineLife · 2025Article
- Performance of SNP barcodes to determine genetic diversity and population structure ofFrontiers in genetics · 2023Article
- Comparison of molecular surveillance methods to assess changes in the population genetics ofFrontiers in parasitology · 2023Article
- Evolutionary analyses of the major variant surface antigen-encoding genes reveal population structure of Plasmodium falciparum within and between continents.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
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- Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Identifying functional groups among the diverse, recombining antigenic var genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from a local community in Ghana.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Signatures of competition and strain structure within the major blood-stage antigen ofEcology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
The concept of niche partitioning has received considerable theoretical attention at the interface of ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. Strain theory postulates that pathogen populations can be structured into distinct nonoverlapping strains by frequency-dependent selection in response to intraspecific competition for host immune space. The malaria parasite
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