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...

Table of Contents:

• J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964)
• Removal of Early Parasite Forms from Circulation as a Mechanism of Resistance Against Malaria in Widespread Red Blood Cell Mutations
• Clinical, Epidemiological, and Genetic Investigations on Thalassemia and Malaria in Italy
• Resistance to Antimalarial Drugs: Parasite and Host Genetic Factors
• Evolutionary Origins of Human Malaria Parasites
• Vector Genetics in Malaria Control
• The Rate of Mutations of Human Genes
• Disease and Evolution.