A genetic study of the malaria parasite finds that this species is unexpectedly diverse. A second study shows multiple independent origins of mutations in one parasite gene that confer resistance to a widely used drug.
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Clark, A. Malaria variorum. Nature 418, 283–284 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/418283a
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