Blurt!Commonplace Book

“[T]he pfhrp2 deletions had arisen recently and hadn’t had time for mutation and recombination to scramble the DNA sequences nearby. So, all the [malaria] parasites that carry the pfhrp2 deletion seemed to have inherited it from the same ancestor, that ancestor was very recent, and there was a selective pressure that was driving the expansion of parasites that inherited the deletion.”

posted Friday, August 12, 2022, 8:00:00pm PDT