Gametocyte sex ratio of a malaria parasite: Response to experimental manipulation of parasite clonal diversity

Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-29

  Osgood, S M ^a   Schall, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Gametocyte; Malaria; Plasmodium mexicanum; Plasmodium spp.; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAMETOCYTE; INFECTION; INOCULATION; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM MEXICANUM; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM MEXICANUM; PROTOZOA; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0842330465     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003004207     Document Type: Article

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