Short communicationVar gene diversity in Plasmodium falciparum is generated by frequent recombination events☆
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank John Peden for invaluable discussions. The following people kindly donated DNA samples or parasites: Tom Williams and Kathryn Maitland (Vanuatu), Virgilio do Rosario (CMDT/IHMT, Portugal and Cape Verde); David Walliker and Lisa Ranford Cartwright (progeny of the 3D7/HB3 cross). The authors would like to thank Kevin Marsh, Brett Lowe and Moses Kortok at KEMRI for their collaboration in collecting and processing the Kilifi samples. HMT was funded by a Wellcome
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Note: Nucleotide sequences reported in this paper are available in the GenBank™ database and have accession numbers AF221760 to AF221829. The alignment of sequences is available from the MBP website.