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Maryam Kamali: Malaria genetics
Eurek Alert: An African mosquito species with a deadly capacity to transmit malaria has a perplexing evolutionary history, according to discovery by researchers at the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech.
Closely related African mosquito species originated the ability to transmit human malaria multiple times during their recent evolution, according to a study published this week in PLoS Pathogens by Igor Sharakhov, an associate professor of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Maryam Kamali of Tehran, Iran, a Ph.D. student in the department of entomology.
The discovery could have implications for malaria control by enabling researchers to detect and target specific genetic changes associated with the capacity to transmit a parasite.
Malaria causes as many as 907,000 deaths each year, mostly among children in sub-Saharan Africa. Anopheles mosquitoes, which bite mainly between dusk and dawn, transmit human malaria by spreading Plasmodium parasites that multiply in the human liver and infect red blood cells. But of the more than 400 species of mosquito belonging to the Anopheles genus, only about 20 are effective vectors of human malaria, according to the World Health Organization.
The most dangerous of these is the Anopheles gambiae mosquito species, one of seven in the Anopheles gambiae complex, which was thought to have recently evolved the ability to transmit malaria. However, Virginia Tech scientists' discoveries suggest that this species is actually genetically linked to an older, ancestral lineage.
Scientists used chromosomal analysis to compare gene arrangements for mosquitoes both inside and outside the Anopheles gambiae family to trace the evolutionary connections.
"The outside species served as a reference group for understanding the evolutionary relationship among Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes," Kamali said. "Our goal was to determine how different species arose in the Anopheles gambiae complex, as they all look identical, but have different behaviors and capacities to transmit human malaria." >>>
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AmirK
by Truthseeker9 on Tue Oct 09, 2012 09:37 AM PDTHave you noticed there's a machine in the background wearing a burka.
Enigma of iranian.com
by amirkabear4u on Tue Oct 09, 2012 01:24 AM PDTAs I said before the best thing about this web site is those who keep drumming about being Iranian show their true colour.
Whatever this girl is, disregard to her hejab, she has achieved something.
Individuals like;
- FA
- Fesenjon
- and the other ones
can eat their heart out.
The Iranian hottie scientist?
by Dr. Mohandes on Mon Oct 08, 2012 09:05 PM PDTFaramarz
Are you trying to get SK jealous? you know the kind of fits she throws when she finds out that you are even thinking about, thinking about! haunting and dating other chicks...
She might proceed to get you banned for life and you may just have to start your own site...faramarzthefemalescientisthunter.com!
That's it!
by Reality-Bites on Mon Oct 08, 2012 08:53 PM PDTFirst thing tomorrow morning I'll be queuing outside the nearest IR consulate, covered in hijab, ready to hand in my grants application.
......
by yolanda on Mon Oct 08, 2012 02:40 PM PDTWow! So no hijab, no grants!
Curly
by Faramarz on Mon Oct 08, 2012 02:14 PM PDTPlease publicize the general area that you live and I can take it from there, looking for scientists in hot short skirts!
They blinded me with science!
Don't get too excited !
by curly on Mon Oct 08, 2012 02:09 PM PDTI have seen so many scientists in hijab in our city and they take it off after finishing school and not needing grants from Iran. Later on you have to see their hot short skirts.just give her sometime:))))
congrats to her and her family...
by Bavafa on Mon Oct 08, 2012 01:23 PM PDTWith best wishes and all the success in her research.
'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory
Mehrdad
No arabic on this site please
by Shirzadegan on Sun Oct 07, 2012 09:56 PM PDT"The 'ignorants' please notice the # of hits on the 'must watch video' below:......" Demo
Now, all "educated peple" please notice the # of hits on the "must watch" video below.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
The first video was watched 2 million. The second video was watched 400 million. I was wondering who was ignorant here.?
Thanks for wathing it.
LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY LONG LIVE FREEDOM
The 'ignorant'
by Reality-Bites on Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:34 PM PDTShould notice, to be grammatically correct, the word ignorant does not require the letter "s", when used in a plural context.
To those who have blind thought
by Kooshan on Sun Oct 07, 2012 08:08 PM PDTGo beyond the roosari and see the kind soul of the lady who is doing something for humanity without sacrificing her belief!
I love those kind souls that belong to humanity no matter if they are Muslim, Jew, Christian or Atheist!
Just pray
by Fesenjoon2 on Sun Oct 07, 2012 05:48 PM PDTI hope she doesn't become an MP in the Majlis in 20 yrs and go around passing bills that make it legal for a man to beat his wife.
as per the Quran of course.
...............
by yolanda on Sun Oct 07, 2012 04:52 PM PDTHere is a Lady gaga Parody with over 3 million hits:
........
by yolanda on Sun Oct 07, 2012 04:43 PM PDTT9 and Faramarz' posts are very funny!
Thank you!
Lab change for Maryam's sake
by First Amendment on Sun Oct 07, 2012 03:55 PM PDTCongratulations to the lady
by Truthseeker9 on Sun Oct 07, 2012 03:46 PM PDTCongratulations to the lady in question and her achievements. She looks lovely with her roosari, BUT... I prefer my own "modesty" hijab style.
//coilhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/hermodesty02.jpg
Unbearable ugliness of Gender Apartheid and forced Hijab,
by Zendanian on Sun Oct 07, 2012 03:39 PM PDTHow do majority of women in Iran think about forced hijab? Imposed by the State, top-down. Just asking.
Our young star in here remains beautiful with or without, of course.
The Beauty of Hijab
by Demo on Sun Oct 07, 2012 03:23 PM PDTThe 'ignorants' please notice the # of hits on the 'must watch video' below:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xxAhtkcoEQ
Thanks for watching it.
I think she is Soosan Khanoom!
by Faramarz on Sun Oct 07, 2012 02:11 PM PDTEducated, yet religious, and afraid of bugs!
Perfectly good reason for the roosari
by Reality-Bites on Sun Oct 07, 2012 02:59 PM PDTIt will protect, the soon to be Dr., Kamali's head from any nasty mosquito bites. Practical and pious at the same time. What more can one ask for?
My best wishes to the lady researcher in her work.
یا امام معصوم
Fesenjoon2Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:53 PM PDT
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Can I cordially invite........
by First Amendment on Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:49 PM PDT............a learned member to bubble up a comment like:..."a hijabed scientist?..............it must be a basiji mosquito..............."?