Scientists led by Emily Wroblewski, in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, discovered that bonobo populations differ in a key immune trait depending on the presence of malaria infection. Infected populations have a higher frequency of an immune variant that protects against developing severe disease, a pattern that mirrors what is observed among human populations.
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