A Modern Menagerie of Mammalian Malaria

Recent opportunistic screening of a diverse set of both wild and captive mammals worldwide has resulted in the discovery and rediscovery of numerous lineages of malaria parasites in these hosts, which represent several major clades within the order Haemospororida. Simultaneously, new techniques in genomic library preparation that are better able to eliminate host DNA contamination and bolster parasite DNA provide hope for obtaining large amounts...