Evolution
As of 2007, DNA sequences are available from less than sixty species of Plasmodium and most of these are from species infecting either rodent or primate hosts. The evolutionary outline given here should be regarded as speculative, and subject to revision as more data becomes available.
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“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
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