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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.23708/PXTDVF |
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Publication Date
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2026-06-15 |
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Title
| Replication Data for: Identification of two genomic cryptotypes of Plasmodium malariae in Africa |
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Author
| Lefebvre, Margaux (Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.) - ORCID: 0000-0002-9339-8657
Arnathau, Céline (UMR MIVEGEC - IRD, CNRS, Univ.Montpellier - France) - ORCID: 0000-0003-0234-6462
Houzé, Sandrine (UMR MERIT - IRD, Université Paris Cité, INSERM - France) - ORCID: 0000-0001-9016-3847
De Thoisy, Benoit (Institut Pasteur de la Guyane - France) - ORCID: 0000-0002-8420-5112
González, Camila (Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Tropical (CIMPAT), Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá D. C., Colombia.) - ORCID: 0000-0001-8089-4056
Rondón, Silvia (Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Tropical (CIMPAT), Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá D. C., Colombia.) - ORCID: 0000-0003-0928-4110
Pain, Arnab (Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah Makkah, Saudi Arabia) - ORCID: 0000-0002-1755-2819
Fontaine, Michael C. (UMR MIVEGEC - IRD, CNRS, Univ.Montpellier - France) - ORCID: 0000-0003-1156-4154
Prugnolle, Franck (REHABS, International Research Laboratory, CNRS) - ORCID: 0000-0001-8519-1253
Rougeron, Virginie (REHABS, International Research Laboratory, CNRS) - ORCID: 0000-0001-5873-5681 |
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Point of Contact
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FONTAINE, Michael (UMR MIVEGEC - IRD, CNRS, Univ.Montpellier - France)
Lefebvre, Margaux (Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie) |
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Description
| These data and scripts are accompanying the manuscript: "Identification of two genomic cryptotypes of Plasmodium malariae in Africa" by Margaux J. M. Lefebvre*, Céline Arnathau, Sandrine Houzé, Benoit de Thoisy, Camila González, Silvia Rondón, Arnab Pain, Michael C. Fontaine§*, Franck Prugnolle§* & Virginie Rougeron§* (*, contact person; § co-supervisors and co-last authors). The archive here includes:
- malariae_brasi.filt.core.ploidy2.vcf.gz: the SNP polymorphism data in VCF format.
- Scripts_WGSPmalariae.tar all the scripts and explanations that are provided in the GitHub repository accompanying the manuscript (https://github.com/MargauxLefebvre/WGS_Pmalariae.git) in a zipped folder.
- README.txt: additional explanations related to the data.
Context and scientific goals: Plasmodium malariae is a human malaria parasite widely distributed across Africa, yet its population structure and genomic diversity remain incompletely characterized because of limited whole-genome data from the continent. In addition, the evolutionary and genetic relationships between P. malariae and the closely related simian parasite from South America, Plasmodium brasilianum, are still not fully understood due to the scarcity of genomic resources. To address these knowledge gaps, this study analyzed parasite genomes obtained from infected humans and non-human primates to investigate genetic diversity, population structure, and signatures of adaptation. Specifically, the objectives were to expand and strengthen the African whole-genome dataset for P. malariae and to generate additional genomic data for P. brasilianum, thereby improving our understanding of their genetic relationships and evolutionary history. See the manuscript for further details. |
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Subject
| Earth and Environmental Sciences; Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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Keyword
| Plasmodium malariae (Loterre) http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-LWMSTSVL-B
Plasmodium brasilianum
Genetics, Population (Loterre) http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-RXM5LQTN-R
malaria (Loterre) http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-DD2WKQGQ-C
Adaptation, Biological (Loterre) http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-XDR0K18H-X |
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Scientific Theme
| Medical entomology, parasitology and virology (NumeriSud) https://uri.ird.fr/so/kos/tnu/052 |
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Related Publication
| preprint article : Identification of two genomic cryptotypes of Plasmodium malariae in Africa Margaux J. M. Lefebvre, Céline Arnathau, Sandrine Houzé, Benoit de Thoisy, Camila González, Silvia Rondón, Andrés Link, Arnab Pain, Michael C. Fontaine, Franck Prugnolle, Virginie Rougeron bioRxiv 2026.03.23.713578; doi: 10.64898/2026.03.23.713578 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.23.713578 |
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Funding Information
| French National Research Agency (ANR): ANR-20-CE35-0003
French National Research Agency (ANR): ANR-10-LABX-25-01
French National Research Agency (ANR): ANR-19-CE350010
United States Agency for International Development
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Depositor
| FONTAINE, Michael |
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Deposit Date
| 2026-03-02 |
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Data Type
| Analysis data |
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Software
| cutadapt, Version: 1.18
bwa-mem, Version: 0.7.17
samtools, Version: 1.15.1
GATK, Version: 3.8.0
Picard, Version: 2.23.5
bcftools, Version: 1.16
vcftools, Version: 0.1.16
vcfdo
R, Version: 4.5.2
python, Version: 3.12
hmmIBD, Version: 2.1.3
angsd, Version: 0.940
ngsLD, Version: 1.2.0
PCAngsd, Version: 1.36.1
IQ-TREE, Version: 2.3.4
pixy, Version: 2.0.0.beta14
bedtools, Version: 2.31.1 |
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Related Dataset
| The sequences of the newly sequenced P. malariae and P. brasilianum samples have been deposited on NCBI (Bioproject PRJNA1168452). |
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Data Source
| Ansari HR, Templeton TJ, Subudhi AK, Ramaprasad A, Tang J, Lu F, et al. Genome-scale comparison of expanded gene families in Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and Plasmodium ovale curtisi with Plasmodium malariae and with other Plasmodium species. Int J Parasitol. 2016;46: 685–696. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.05.009; Rutledge GG, Böhme U, Sanders M, Reid AJ, Cotton JA, Maiga-Ascofare O, et al. Plasmodium malariae and P. ovale genomes provide insights into malaria parasite evolution. Nature. 2017;542: 101–104. doi:10.1038/nature21038; Ibrahim A, Diez Benavente E, Nolder D, Proux S, Higgins M, Muwanguzi J, et al. Selective whole genome amplification of Plasmodium malariae DNA from clinical samples reveals insights into population structure. Sci Rep. 2020;10: 10832. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-67568-4; Plenderleith LJ, Liu W, Li Y, Loy DE, Mollison E, Connell J, et al. Zoonotic origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae from African apes. Nat Commun. 2022;13: 1868. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29306-4; Ibrahim A, Mohring F, Manko E, van Schalkwyk DA, Phelan JE, Nolder D, et al. Genome sequencing of Plasmodium malariae identifies continental segregation and mutations associated with reduced pyrimethamine susceptibility. Nat Commun. 2024;15: 10779. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-55102-3 |