Ellen Martinsen and Joseph Schall, University of Vermont (IMAGE)
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In the lab of University of Vermont biologist and malaria expert Joseph Schall (back), Ellen Martinsen, a researcher at the Smithsonian and adjunct at UVM, helped confirm a discovery she and colleagues made: a malaria parasite that infects white-tailed deer. It's the first-ever malaria parasite known to live in a deer species and the only native malaria parasite found in any mammal in North or South America. Their results were published in the journal Science Advances.
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Joshua Brown
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