Fig. 7

Dimorphic nature of Plasmodium ovale curtisi and Plasmodium ovale wallikeri based on the partial sequences from two apicoplast genes. a tufA gene, and b clpC gene. Each alignment includes the sequences from the P. ovale cases imported in Singapore (highlighted in grey) and published sequences. The Plasmodium ovale-like sequence [HQ842632] isolated from chimpanzee (Kaiser et al. unpublished) is included into this comparison but separated from P. o. curtisi and P. o wallikeri because it present 11 additional unique polymorphic loci beside the 15 dimorphic loci that distinguish P. o. curtisi and P. o wallikeri. Numbering is based on the start-codon (ATG) identified for both tufA and clpC. Non-synonymous mutations are in boldface type and dots represent nucleic acid similarity