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Human migration, mosquitoes and the evolution of Plasmodium falciparum

Overview of attention for article published in Trends in Parasitology, March 2003
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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4 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Human migration, mosquitoes and the evolution of Plasmodium falciparum
Published in
Trends in Parasitology, March 2003
DOI 10.1016/s1471-4922(03)00008-4
Pubmed ID
Authors

Jennifer C.C. Hume, Emily J. Lyons, Karen P. Day

Abstract

To date, coalescent analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum genome sequence has failed to provide a unifying theory regarding the parasite's evolution. While a better understanding of the evolution of the malaria genome will undoubtedly clarify the current controversy, the importance of the parasite's interplay with both the human host and mosquito vector cannot be underestimated. Changes in the population biology or ecology of either one of these species have consequences for malaria transmission and this was never more apparent than in the environmental changes brought about by the advent of agriculture.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
United Kingdom 2 1%
France 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 135 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 23%
Student > Master 18 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 13 9%
Student > Bachelor 8 5%
Other 29 20%
Unknown 10 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 73 50%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 7%
Mathematics 6 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 3%
Other 24 16%
Unknown 11 8%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2020.
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#1,877,589
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Parasitology
#267
of 2,303 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,161
of 62,542 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Parasitology
#1
of 13 outputs
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