Comparative transcriptomics of female and male gametocytes in Plasmodium berghei and the evolution of sex in alveolates

BACKGROUND: The clinical symptoms of malaria are caused by the asexual replication of Plasmodium parasites in the blood of the vertebrate host. To spread to new hosts, however, the malaria parasite must differentiate into sexual forms, termed gametocytes, which are ingested by a mosquito vector. Sex...

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Autores principales: Yeoh, Lee M., Goodman, Christopher D., Mollard, Vanessa, McFadden, Geoffrey I., Ralph, Stuart A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5604118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28923023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4100-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5604118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28923023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4100-0

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