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What is it that causes pathogens to harm their host? In my lab, we study the evolutionary pressures, and the biology underlying them, that make pathogens virulent.
Studies of natural selection on merozoite genes. Previous work on merozoite antigens, such as AMA1, MSP1 and EBA175 have shown evidence of these genes being under balancing selection.