Characterizing the Ancestral AP2-G Allele within the Human Malaria Parasite.

Research dedicated to the sexual stages of P. falciparum would, especially aid in understanding the transmission of such a deadly disease. The central hypothesis is that the ancestral AP2-G allele will have a different sexual conversion rate when compared to the SEA or African AP2-G alleles because of the presence of the 66 amino acid segment without a premature stop codon.