Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects

• Main Authors: Dronamraju, Krishna R. (Author), Arese, Paolo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
• Subjects: Science.; Science, general.

This book was originally conceived at a conference at the University of Turin in Italy. The conference was organized to examine the so-called “Malaria Hypothesis”, that is to say, the higher fitness of t- lassemia heterozygotes in a malarial environment, and to pay tribute to the proponent of that h...