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The malaria parasite generates genetic diversity using an evolutionary ‘copy-paste’ tactic
Announcements, Science, Science & Technology Plasmodium falciparum, a malaria parasite, uses gene conversion to produce genetic diversity in two surface protein genes targeted by the human immune system.
2024
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