Playing with some sequence data I found numerous Plasmodium sequences from the following paper: These sequences (e.g., U43145) give the host as Thamnomys rutilans . You'd think it would be fairly easy to learn more about this animal, given that it hosts a relative of the cause of malaria in humans, and indeed there are a number of biomedical papers that come up in Google, e.g.: Google also tells me that Thamnomys