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  • A variant of MHC class I is protective against severe malaria disease and enriched in affected African populations. Here, Wroblewski et al., characterise the consequences of malaria infection in wild bonobo populations showing that the presence of malaria drives a similar evolution in immune genes.

    • Emily E. Wroblewski
    • Lisbeth A. Guethlein
    • Peter Parham
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-11

  • Inventory data from more than 1 million trees across African, Amazonian and Southeast Asian tropical forests suggests that, despite their high diversity, just 1,053 species, representing a consistent ~2.2% of tropical tree species in each region, constitute half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees.

    • Declan L. M. Cooper
    • Simon L. Lewis
    • Stanford Zent
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 625, P: 728-734

  • Plasmodium vivax, the leading cause of human malaria in Asia and Latin America, is thought to have an Asian origin. Here, the authors show that wild chimpanzees and gorillas in Africa are infected with parasites that are closely related to P. vivax, indicating an African origin for this species.

    • Weimin Liu
    • Yingying Li
    • Paul M. Sharp
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-10

  • Unlike chimpanzees and gorillas, bonobos have not been found infected by malaria parasites in the wild. Here, Liu et al. report more thorough survey and sequencing results showing that bonobos host malaria parasites, including a yet-unknown species, but only in the eastern-most part of their range.

    • Weimin Liu
    • Scott Sherrill-Mix
    • Beatrice H. Hahn
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-14

  • The aboveground carbon stock of a montane African forest network is comparable to that of a lowland African forest network and two-thirds higher than default values for these montane forests.

    • Aida Cuni-Sanchez
    • Martin J. P. Sullivan
    • Etienne Zibera
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 596, P: 536-542

  • This study reports data from a network of long-term monitoring plots across African tropical forests, which finds that above-ground carbon storage in live trees increased by 0.63 Mg C ha−1 yr−1 between 1968 and 2007. The data is extrapolated to unmeasured forest components, and by scaling to the continent, a total increase in carbon storage in African tropical forest trees of 0.34 Pg C yr−1 is estimated. These results provide evidence that increasing carbon storage in old-growth forests is a pan-tropical phenomenon.

    • Simon L. Lewis
    • Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez
    • Hannsjörg Wöll
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 457, P: 1003-1006