Publication alert! 🔔 Our recent work exploring how Plasmodium uses a Rad51 independent homologous recombination to diversify its var gene repertoire is now published in 🧬 Nucleic Acids Research! @oupprimary.bsky.social @narjournal.bsky.social Read more here. tinyurl.com/794brb6h

Wondered how malaria parasites are able to evade human immune system by increasing the number of virulence genes? Read our preprint! We show how deficiencies in DNA repair mechanisms specific to core genome and subtelomeric regions enable parasites to achieve this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...