Artemisia and its allied species have been employed for conventional medicine in the
Northern temperate regions of North America, Europe, and Asia for the treatments of …

Microbiome research has grown rapidly over the past decade, with a proliferation of new
methods that seek to make sense of large, complex data sets. Here, we survey two of the …

Almost 20 years have passed since the first reference genome assemblies were published
for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, and Anopheles gambiae, the …

The identification of orthologous groups is useful for genome annotation, studies on
gene/protein evolution, comparative genomics, and the identification of taxonomically …

The newest version of MUMmer easily handles comparisons of large eukaryotic genomes at
varying evolutionary distances, as demonstrated by applications to multiple genomes. Two …

Malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the tropics, with Plasmodium
falciparum responsible for the majority of the disease burden and P. vivax being the …

The parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for hundreds of millions of cases of
malaria, and kills more than one million African children annually. Here we report an …

The completion of the Plasmodium falciparum clone 3D7 genome provides a basis on which
to conduct comparative proteomics studies of this human pathogen. Here, we applied a high …

The human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax is responsible for 25–40% of the∼ 515
million annual cases of malaria worldwide. Although seldom fatal, the parasite elicits severe …

Background Rodent malaria parasites (RMP) are used extensively as models of human
malaria. Draft RMP genomes have been published for Plasmodium yoelii, P. berghei ANKA …