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| Title |
Timing the origin of human malarias: the lemur puzzle
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-11-299 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
M Andreína Pacheco, Fabia U Battistuzzi, Randall E Junge, Omar E Cornejo, Cathy V Williams, Irene Landau, Lydia Rabetafika, Georges Snounou, Lisa Jones-Engel, Ananias A Escalante |
| Abstract |
Timing the origin of human malarias has been a focus of great interest. Previous studies on the mitochondrial genome concluded that Plasmodium in primates, including those parasitic to humans, radiated relatively recently during a process where host switches were common. Those investigations, however, assumed constant rate of evolution and tightly bound (fixed) calibration points based on host fossils or host distribution. We investigate the effect of such assumptions using different molecular dating methods. We include parasites from Lemuroidea since their distribution provides an external validation to time estimates allowing us to disregard scenarios that cannot explain their introduction in Madagascar. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 100 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |
| Finland | 1 | 1% |
| Kenya | 1 | 1% |
| Romania | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 22 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Unknown | 11 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 49 | 49% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Unknown | 16 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 June 2018.
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#5,447,195
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,318
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#30,201
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#24
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