Plasmodium billbrayi

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Plasmodium billbrayi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemospororida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species:
P. billbrayi
Binomial name
Plasmodium billbrayi
Krief et al., 2010

Plasmodium billbrayi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Laverania .

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P. billbrayi is phylogenetically very close to Plasmodium gaboni , [1] with both sharing a recent common ancestor. [2] The parasite is named in honour of the distinguished malariologist "Bill" Robert Stow Bray (1923–2008). [2]

Taxonomy

Plasmodium billbrayi was first described along with Plasmodium billcollinsi by Krief et al. in February 2010, by sequencing the whole Plasmodium mitochondrial genome in chimpanzees. [1]

Distribution

This species is found in East Africa. [1]

Hosts

Plasmodium billbrayi infects common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Prugnolle, Franck; Durand, Patrick; Ollomo, Benjamin; Duval, Linda; Ariey, Frédéric; Arnathau, Céline; Gonzalez, Jean-Paul; Leroy, Eric; Renaud, François (2011). "A Fresh Look at the Origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the Most Malignant Malaria Agent". PLOS Pathogens. 7 (2) e1001283. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001283 . PMC   3044689 . PMID   21383971.
  2. 1 2 Krief; Escalante, Ananias A.; Pacheco, M. Andreina; Mugisha, Lawrence; André, Claudine; Halbwax, Michel; Fischer, Anne; Krief, Jean-Michel; Kasenene, John M.; Crandfield, Mike; Cornejo, Omar E.; Chavatte, Jean-Marc; Lin, Clara; Letourneur, Franck; Grüner, Anne Charlotte; McCutchan, Thomas F.; Rénia, Laurent; Snounou, Georges (2010). "On the Diversity of Malaria Parasites in African Apes and the Origin of Plasmodium falciparum from Bonobos". PLOS Pathogens. 6 (2) e1000765. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000765 . PMC   2820532 . PMID   20169187.
  3. ↑ Duval, Linda; Fourment, Mathieu; Nerrienet, Eric; Rousset, Dominique; Sadeuh, Serge A.; Goodman, Steven M.; Andriaholinirina, Nicole V.; Randrianarivelojosia, Milijaona; Paul, Richard E.; Robert, Vincent; Ayala, Francisco J.; Ariey, Frédéric (8 June 2010). "African apes as reservoirs of Plasmodium falciparum and the origin and diversification of the Laverania subgenus". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (23): 10561–10566. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10710561D. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1005435107 . PMC   2890828 . PMID   20498054.


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