Short communicationRecent independent evolution of msp1 polymorphism in Plasmodium vivax and related simian malaria parasites☆
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Acknowledgements
We thank D. Conway for comments, and C. Amaratunga and W. Wijayalath for preparing Toque monkey parasite DNA samples. This work was supported by MEXT (18073013) and JSPS (18390131, 17-05495, 18GS03140013).
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Note: Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank with accession numbers: AB266180–AB266196.