The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises
diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites …

Five species of parasite cause malaria in humans with the most severe disease caused by
Plasmodium falciparum. Many of the proteins encoded in the P. falciparum genome are …

The problems associated with the drugs currently used to treat leishmaniasis, including
resistance, toxicity, and the high cost of some formulations, call for the urgent identification of …

Low complexity sequences (LCRs) are well known within coding as well as non-coding
sequences. A low complexity region within a protein must be encoded by the underlying …

Short tandem repeats (STRs) are highly informative genetic markers that have been used
extensively in population genetics analysis. They are an important source of genetic …

The increasing prevalence of infections involving intracellular apicomplexan parasites such
as Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, and Cryptosporidium (the causative agents of malaria …

Microsporidia and Apicomplexa are eukaryotic, single‐celled, intracellular parasites with
huge public health and economic importance. Typically, these parasites are studied …

Low complexity regions (LCRs) are a common feature shared by many genomes, but their
evolutionary and functional significance remains mostly unknown. At the core of the …

Intracellular protozoan parasites have evolved an efficient protein quality control (PQC)
network comprising protein folding and degradation machineries that protect the parasite's …

Abstract tRNAs are not only essential for decoding the genetic code, but their abundance
also has a strong impact on the rate of protein production, folding, and on the stability of the …