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Phenotypic Analysis of Rodent Malaria Parasite Asexual and Sexual Blood Stages and Mosquito Stages
Published on: May 30, 2019
Abstract:
This review examines the sexual development of Plasmodium spp. particularly relating the ultrastructural organization of their cells to the limited, though rapidly expanding, body of metabolic and biochemical studies. Thus it is hoped the article may provide a useful background of information for those undertaking studies on the sexual parasites with the objective of developing methods for the immunological and chemotherapeutic control of malaria transmission. These objectives, however, should not dominate our clear recognition that the three phases of sexual development, gametocytogenesis, gametogenesis and fertilization contain within them examples of control and assembly of organelles without peer amongst eukaryotic cells.
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