The MID tagged Pfcrt (PF3D7_0709000) primers failed to generate nested PCR amplicons; therefore, Pfcrt was amplified and sequenced using previously described primers and PCR conditions (31 (link), 32 (link)) on an ABI3730xl system (Applied Biosystems). The Pfcrt sequence assembly was performed in CLC Main Workbench v7.9.1 (Qiagen, UK), and SNPs were identified and called based on the 3D7 reference sequences. Nucleotide positions that displayed a peak within a peak in the sequence chromatograms were noted as “mixed.” Consensus sequences were extracted from the sequence assemblies using CLC Genomics Workbench v9.5.3 and used to construct multiple-sequence alignments in Clustal Omega v1.2.1 (67 (link), 68 (link)) to identify SNPs.
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