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Plasmodium falciparum; linkage disequilibrium; heterozygosity;
population structure; infinite-alleles model; stepwise mutation
model
Drug-resistant malaria; neisseria-meningitidis; linkage
disequilibrium; natural-populations; antigenic diversity; high-
resolution; blood-samples; mating system; recombination; sex
Abstract:
Multilocus genotyping of microbial pathogens has revealed a range of population structures, with some bacteria showing extensive recombination and others showing almost complete clonality. The population structure of the protozoan parasite Plasmodium fa