Malaria parasite development in a Drosophila model

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5475, 2000, Pages 2376-2379

  Schneider, David ^a   Shahabuddin, Mohammed ^b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPOROZOITE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHICKENS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INSECT VECTORS; MACROPHAGES; MALARIA, AVIAN; MUTATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0034733577     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5475.2376     Document Type: Article

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18. We thank G. Fink, L. Miller, T. Orr Weaver, J. Ribeiro, and S. Sanders for comments on the manuscript. We also thank B. Levin for designing and performing RT-PCR reactions and A. Costero for preparing the mosquito oocyst data. Animals were treated in accordance with institutional guidelines. Supported by the Whitehead Fellows program (D.S.) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for M.S.