Anopheles mosquitoes disperse over long distances by wind
This is decidedly unsettling: “Windborne long-distance migration of malaria mosquitoes in the Sahel”.
This is decidedly unsettling: “Windborne long-distance migration of malaria mosquitoes in the Sahel”.
The current issue of Scientific American is specially devoted to human evolution. There are great articles by Kate Wong, Ian Tattersall, Frans de Waal, Berna...
Ed Yong, writing for the new Wellcome Trust-sponsored science publication, Mosaic, has gone to Thailand to follow the development of artemisin-resistant mala...
A new paper examines the parasite load of a group of wild chimpanzees for Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria DeNys:2013. Several strains of Plasmod...
In my last post (“Quote: Lederberg on Haldane”) I pointed to a 1999 article by Joshua Lederberg Lederberg:Haldane:1999. Later in the article, he considers an...
J. B. S. Haldane has typically been assigned credit for the first suggestion that human hemoglobinopathies are adaptations to malaria. In 1999, Joshua Lederb...
Notable, from the Guardian: “Malaria kills twice as many people as previously thought, research finds”.
Peter Ralph and Graham Coop have an interesting paper in the current Genetics, titled, “Parallel Adaptation: One or Many Waves of Advance of an Advantageous ...
Malaria in humans is caused by one of five different species of Plasmodium parasites. The deadliest of these is P. falciparum, especially within Africa where...
Jenny Tung of Duke University and colleagues report in Nature (online early) that yellow baboons have evolved a Duffy antigen-related defense against a baboo...
Well, when you’ve got a captive audience….