The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises
diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites …

Endemic malaria, which claimed 229 million new cases and 409,000 deaths in 2019 mainly
in Africa, was eradicated from Europe by the mid-20th century. Historical descriptions of …

Malaria-causing protozoa of the genus Plasmodium have exerted one of the strongest
selective pressures on the human genome, and resistance alleles provide biomolecular …

The broadening utilisation of ancient DNA to address archaeological, palaeontological, and
biological questions is resulting in a rising diversity in the size of laboratories and scale of …

Despite the eradication of malaria across most European countries in the 1960s and 1970s,
the anopheline vectors are still present. Most of the malaria cases that have been reported in …

African apes harbor at least twelve Plasmodium species, some of which have been a source
of human infection. It is now well established that Plasmodium falciparum emerged following …

The ability to sequence genomes from ancient biological material has provided a rich source
of information for evolutionary biology and engaged considerable public interest. Although …

Solar geoengineering is often framed as a stopgap measure to decrease the magnitude,
impacts, and injustice of climate change. However, the benefits or costs of geoengineering …

Background The population history of Plasmodium simium, which causes malaria in sylvatic
Neotropical monkeys and humans along the Atlantic Coast of Brazil, remains disputed …

Malaria is considered one of the most important scourges that humanity has faced during its
history, being responsible every year for numerous deaths worldwide. The disease is …