Wondered how malaria parasites are able to evade human immune system by increasing the number of virulence genes? Read our preprint! We show how deficiencies in DNA repair mechanisms specific to core genome and subtelomeric regions enable parasites to achieve this.
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The haploid malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, evolved a unique cohort of DNA repair pathways enabling the parasite to survive in a vertebrate host red blood cell and the mosquito vector. P. fal...
