Pubmed combined search cd36[AND]apis, indeed retrieves the two references, so honeybee genus Apis correlates with the SNMP gene.
We are yet precisely to link the passage for gold in the malaria study, though so far the trajectory is promising, because reference #10 of that study links the albino luna-sweetgum-gold assemblage to human amelanotic melanoma:
'ref.10. Udeinya IJ, et al (1983) Plasmodium falciparum Effect of Time in Continuous Culture on Binding to Human Endothelial Cells and Amelanotic Melanoma Cells.'