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Malaria Menace
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Malaria Menace Mapped
Biologists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with researchers at NCBI, have produced a genetic map of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Maps, markers, and recombination data of linkage groups corresponding to the 14 P. falciparum nuclear chromosomes are available at NCBI’s Malaria Genetics & Genomics page. Figure 1 illustrates the map for P. falciparum linkage group 1, which shows the relative position of several STS markers. Clicking on one of the STS markers leads to the appropriate GenBank sequence record. Crossover counts, crossover locations, and genotype segregation proportions for each of the linkage groups are also available.
Figure 1
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Map for P. Falciparum linkage group 1.
To access these mapping data or download sequence data for each of P. falciparum's 14 chromosomes, visit www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Malaria/.—DW
