P. vivax whole genomes from Peru

The Plasmodium vivax reticulocyte invasion process is still poorly understood, with only a few receptor-ligand interactions identified to date. We combined functional ex vivo invasion assays in Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (SAO) reticulocytes and mRNA sequencing to uncover a band 3-mediated invasion pathway in P. vivax and potential band 3 ligands (BioProject PRJNA853709). This BioProject shows whole genome sequencing data of a subset of those same isolates (n=8), which were used to check if differentially expressed genes were not the consequence of genetic bias between the comparison groups.