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Sex and Death: The Effects of Innate Immune Factors on the Sexual Reproduction of Malaria Parasites

Malaria parasites must undergo a round of sexual reproduction in the blood meal of a mosquito vector to be transmitted between hosts. Developing a transmission-blocking intervention to prevent parasites from mating is a major goal of biomedicine, but its effectiveness could be compromised if parasit...

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Autores principales: Ramiro, Ricardo S., Alpedrinha, João, Carter, Lucy, Gardner, Andy, Reece, Sarah E.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21408620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001309