Anopheles mosquitoes disperse over long distances by wind
This is decidedly unsettling: “Windborne long-distance migration of malaria mosquitoes in the Sahel”.
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My article in Scientific American
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...
The fight against drug-resistant malaria
Ed Yong, writing for the new Wellcome Trust-sponsored science publication, Mosaic, has gone to Thailand to follow the development of artemisin-resistant mala...
Population structure and chimpanzee malaria
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...
Quote: Lederberg on the candidate gene approach
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...
Quote: Lederberg on Haldane
J. B. S. Haldane has typically been assigned credit for the first suggestion that human hemoglobinopathies are adaptations to malaria. In 1999, Joshua Lederb...
Malaria death toll estimate rises
Notable, from the Guardian: “Malaria kills twice as many people as previously thought, research finds”.
Spatial dispersal, parallel adaptation, and the "Stooge effect"
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 ...
Falciparum malaria came from gorillas
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...
Primate genomics: the Duffy (FY) gene, malaria, and baboons
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...
Bill Gates, bioterrorist wannabe
Well, when you’ve got a captive audience….