Craig W. Duffy

TL;DR: 15 manually curated new reference genome sequences with their nearly complete subtelomeric regions and fully assembled genes are an important new resource for the malaria research community and report the overall conserved structure and pattern of important gene families and the more clearly defined subtelomersic regions.

TL;DR: Within-population analyses identifying loci showing evidence of recent positive directional selection and balancing selection confirm that antimalarial drugs and host immunity have been major selective agents, and identify exceptional differentiation of allele frequencies at a small number of loci.

TL;DR: To investigate the parasite population genetics, sensitive and species-specific microsatellite genotyping protocols were developed and applied to analysis of samples from 10 sites covering a range of >1,600 km within which most cases have occurred.

TL;DR: Genome sequence analysis reveals that the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi consists of three highly divergent subpopulations, including two commonly seen in sympatric human clinical infections in Malaysian Borneo and five lines maintained in laboratory rhesus macaques after isolation in the 1960s from Peninsular Malaysia and the Philippines.

TL;DR: This review focusses on the unusual cell cycles of Plasmodium, which may present a rich source of novel drug targets as well as a topic of fundamental biological interest.