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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.2em; MARGIN: 1em 0px 0.5em 0.5em; FONT-SIZE: 11px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class="affiliation">Unit&eacute; des Maladies Virales Emergentes, Centre International de Recherches M&eacute;dicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon.</p>
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Researchers&nbsp;reported the discovery of a new Plasmodium species infecting Hominids.&nbsp;<br />
New species has been isolated in two chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) kept as pets by villagers in Gabon (Africa).&nbsp;<br />
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Analysis of its complete mitochondrial genome (5529 nucleotides including Cyt b, Cox I and Cox III genes) reveals an older divergence of this lineage from the clade that includes [[P. falciparum]] and [[P. reichenowi]] (approximately 21+/-9 Myrs ago using Bayesian methods and considering that the divergence between P. falciparum and P. reichenowi occurred 4 to 7 million years ago as generally considered in the literature).&nbsp;<br />
This time frame would be congruent with the radiation of hominoids, suggesting that this Plasmodium lineage might have been present in early hominoids and that they may both have experienced a simultaneous diversification.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19478877?ordinalpos=1&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19478877?ordinalpos=1&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum</font></a><br />
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